context: In 1970, two years after the beginning of China's Cultural Revolution, Liu was sent to Huairou, a small village in the Beijing countryside, where she lived and worked among the local villagers from 1968 to 1972.
source: As a student Liu's art education had strict limits; the constrained and academic style which students were forced to emulate has been likened by Liu to paint-by-numbers.
reference_original: Come studentessa l'istruzione artistica di Liu aveva dei limiti severi; lo stile accademico e forzato che gli studenti erano obbligati ad emulare era stato apprezzato da Liu in paint-by-numbers.
reference_flipped: Come studente l'istruzione artistica di Liu aveva dei limiti severi; lo stile accademico e forzato che gli studenti erano obbligati ad emulare era stato apprezzato da Liu in paint-by-numbers.