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Distro - North Chinese Mental Hospital. 1990. 

Ma Xiao Hu 

The People of Oblivion.
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The total population of China is around 10 billion inhabitants, 1.26% of whom are mentally disabled persons (12.600.000 persons). In all over, 80% of the mental patients can' t get treatments as there are only 100.000 beds available. The remaining 10 millions are not thus in institutions.The author of these photographs visited from february to december 1989 an average of 12 mental institutions in Jilin of the Heilongjian Province, Beijing, and Tianjin of the Hebei Province, and contacted approximately 7000 patients and their families, psychiatrists... 

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CHINA. Guangxi. 1990. Mental Hospital Guangxi. This is a ward... 

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CHINA. Sichuan. 1990. Mental Hospital Sichuan. 

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CHINA. Guizhou. 1990. Mental Hospital Guizhou. 

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CHINA. Shanxi. 1989. Miao Yujiu, age 33, has been afflicted for... 

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CHINA. Heilongjiang. 1989. Mental Hospital Heilongjiang. A mental... 

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CHINA. Shanxi. 1990. Mental Hospital Shanxi. 

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CHINA. Heilongjiang. 1989. Mental Hospital Heilongjiang. 

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CHINA. Guizhou. 1990. Wang Mingcai, age 28, has been afflicted... 

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CHINA. Guangxi. 1990. Mental Hospital Guangxi. 

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CHINA. Sichuan. 1990. Vagrant Sufferer Sichuan. 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. This mental patient... 

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CHINA. Guizhou. 1990. Mental Hospital Guizhou. Two brothers live... 

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CHINA. Sichuan. 1990. Mental Hospital Sichuan. Xie Zhimei’s daughter... 

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CHINA. Sichuan. 1990. Tao Shimao, 22 years old, was the only... 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. Meng Zhaolan,... 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. 

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Guizhou, an inmate locked in his cell in the Guizhou hospital.... 

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Heilungjiang province. 

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Heilungjiang province. 

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CHINA. Beijing. 1989. Mental Hospital Beijing. 

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Tienjin, the water supply is sometimes insufficient to provide... 

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Heilungjian, like most of the patients, this man is looking for... 

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CHINA. Heilongjiang. 1989. Mental Hospital Heilongjiang. Sufferers... 

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Beijing, playing and exercising in the open, it is only possible... 

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Heilungjiang province. 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. 

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The woman lying on the bed is called Mung-xiao-lan, age 66, admitted... 

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Heilungjiang province. 

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Tienjin, Qing Ying, age 12, an extreme case of mental disability,... 

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CHINA. Beijing. 1989. Mental Hospital Beijing. 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. Yang Jun, age... 

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CHINA. Heilongjiang. 1989. Mental Hospital Heilongjiang. 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. Patients bathing.... 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. Zhang Shuhua... 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. Unable to speak,... 

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Tienjin, the patient's name is Han Min, age 36, no work unit,... 

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Tienjin, the patient's name is Han Min, age 36, no work unit,... 

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Tienjin, a patient who has chopped off his own finger ten years... 

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Tienjin, Way-Yao-Shung, age 40 and single, was a primary school... 

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Tienjin, there are few and rare chances to 'play' like this. 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. 

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Tienjin, Qing Ying, age 12, an extreme case of mental disability,... 

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CHINA. Tianjin. 1989. Mental Hospital Tianjin. 

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Heilungjiang province. 

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CHINA. Heilongiang. 1989. Mental Hospital Heilongiang. 

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Heilungjiang, men eating their food in a waiting room. 

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Heilungjiang, from morning to night there is nothing to do, the... 

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CHINA. Heilongiang. 1989. Mental Hospital Heilongjiang. 

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Heilungjian, the patient's name is Chu, 60 years old, he has... 

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CHINA. Beijing. 1989. Zhang Xiaping, from Yunnan, is 27 years... 
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