Red and Yellow

Cultures assign different meanings to specific colors. In ours, red is associated with anger, yellow with cowardice. In China, red is associated with happiness, while yellow, traditionally associated with emperors, represents power.

Pictured are scenes from the emperor's garden which adjoin the Forbidden City, across from Tianananmen Square. These traditional gardens are the work of countless people whose existence was almost slave-like. The Communists have transformed this bastion of privilege into a public park. Occasionally, they get things right.