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Distro - China 1958 : The Great Leap Forward 

Fondation Henri Cartier-Bresson 

Mao had toured China and concluded that the Chinese people
were capable of anything and the two primary tasks that he felt
they should target was industry and agriculture. Mao announced
a second Five Year Plan to last from 1958 to 1963. This plan
was called the Great Leap Forward. The Great Leap Forward
planned to develop agriculture and industry. Mao believed that
both had to grow to allow the other to grow. Industry could only
prosper if the work force was well fed, while the agricultural
workers needed industry to produce the modern tools needed
for modernisation. To allow for this, China was... 

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing.1958. October 1st. 10th... 

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. June 1958. Students... 

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CHINA. Shanghai. 1958. 

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". July 1958. This gigantic Sanmenshia... 

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958. A unit going to work in... 
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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. 1958. Students plunge... 
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CHINA. 1958. Thousands of volunteers are building the Ming Tombs... 

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CHINA. Sichuan. Chongqing. August 1958. On docks, men unload... 

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". September 1958. Commune of Shiu... 
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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Ganzu province. Yumen. August... 

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958. Commune of Shiu Shin (310.000... 

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. 1958. Agricultural... 
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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Liaoning Province. Shenyang.... 
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CHINA. Beijing. 1958. The Chinese Culture Park. Exhibition on... 

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. 1958.
With the intense... 
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CHINA. Sin Kiang. Sian. August 1958. As an after-school hours... 
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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. 1958.
Near pagoda Market,... 
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CHINA. Sinkiang Province. Urumchi. 1958. This Han majority Young... 
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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. 1958. 
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CHINA. Beijing. September 1958. A unit of the People's Militia... 

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CHINA. Beijing. 1958. 

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". September 1958. Commune of Shiu... 

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. September 1958. At... 

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CHINA. Sichuan Province. Chengdu. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958.... 
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CHINA. Beijing. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958. The extermination... 
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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Liaoning Province. Shenyang.... 
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