| "The True Record" was founded in Shanghai in 1912 by the brothers Gao Jianfu and Gao Qifeng of the Lingnan school of painting. After the Republic of China was founded, Gao Jianfu obtained from the archives of Nanhai county in Guangdong province a statement made by the revolutionary Shi Jianru after his failed bomb attack on the governor of Guangdong's office and subsequent arrest in 1900. To demonstrate Shi's selfless devotion to the revolutionary cause but fearing that inaccuracies in the statement would damage the reputation of the revolutionaries, Gao Jianfu splashed ink on the statement before the printing plate was produced, which led later generations to believe that it was stained with Shi Jianru's blood. The picture shows the statement published in "The True Record" which is in the collection of the Hong Kong Museum of History. |
