Taking a moment

A current exhibition explores the amateur, yet historically significant, photographs of Zhou Haiying, son of eminent Chinese writer, Lu Xun, Lin Qi reports.

Throughout his life, Zhou Haiying (1929-2011) lived with both the honor and the pressure of being the only child of eminent writer, critic, translator and social activist of 20th-century China, Zhou Shuren (1881-1936), who is perhaps better known by his pen name, Lu Xun.

He once described it as growing up under the control of "a fame field", the extensive, prolonged influence of his father that grabbed him like a magnetic field.