Lost Underground

“Epilogue” – Professor of Chinese at Pacific Lutheran University visits Lost Underground Director Gavin Reub and artist/writer Cheryll Leo-Gwin to revisit the underground salons and the Misty Poets of China’s Cultural Revolution. They ask the question Why do we care?

“The Third Generation” – Seeking freedom from oppression and persecution, the third-generation escapes from China.

“Still Some Questions” – Suicide, torture, and hopelessness drive a young painter to become China’s grandfather of painting during the Cultural Revolution.

“Dreamers” - Escaping the authoritarian Dictator Mao Tse Tung, teenage artists and poets in underground salons are drunk and in love with love.

“Music in the Wilds”: Under the harshest conditions in China’s Great Northwestern Wilderness and authoritarian dictatorship, music finds the heart.

“Under Threat to Lives”: Young teenager and painter Li Muchen uses fire and flames to protect his friends from the authoritarian control of dictator Mao Tse Tung.

Li Fan, a young revoluonary and right-hand man of Mao Tse Tung. He speaks of student revolts, red army guerilla warfare, and imprisonment as a spy.

Young teenager, Li Mei Ling, escapes from starvation, authoritarian dictatorship, imprisonment, and family separation during China’s Cultural Revolution.

An 8-episode podcast will be released in Summer 2025. Stories from the underground salons during China’s Cultural Revolution have been buried by fear and fading memory. We present these true stories to preserve a history that also reflects the similar struggles continuing in America and around the globe.