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Henri Cartier-Bresson - CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958.
CHINA. Beijing. 1958.
CHINA.Sin Kiang. Turfan. 1958. A mother lays down her child for a siesta. A Moslem and one of the national minorities (Uigur, Hui, Kasaks, Tatars, Shihpo, and H
Sinkiang Province. Urumchi.
CHINA. Beijing. 1958.
CHINA. Beijing. 1958. A unit of the People's Militia awaits their turn at the daily morning drill. In the background, Tien An Men Palace where the country's lea
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Liaoning Province. Anshan. 1958. Steel-works.
Shanghai.
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958. This gigantic Sanmenshia Dam is being built on the Yellow River by 7000 permanent workers plus innumerable volunteers.
CHINA. Shanghai. 1958.
Dinner on the dining car between Peking and Shenyang (Liaoning Province) costs between 0,50 centimes and 1 yuan 20 (about 70 cents), so many buy a snack from pl
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958. This gigantic Sanmenshia Dam is being built on the Yellow River by 7000 permanent workers plus innumerable volunteers.
CHINA. 1958. Dinner on the dining car between Beijing and Shenyang (Liaoning Province) costs between 0,50 centimes and 1 yuan 20 (about 70 cents), so many buy a
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958. Commune of Shiu Shin (310.000 inhabitants living in 280 villages divided into 7 Popular Communes spread over 600 square k...
Beijing.
CHINA. Beijing. 1958.
CHINA. Sichuan. Chongqing. 1958. On docks, men unload the barges by hand; mechanized equipment had not yet been installed. Several citizens wrote letters of pro
CHINA. Sichuan Province. Chengdu. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958.
A male nurse disenfects all who enter the city in an effort to halt an epidemic. Fearful of t
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958. Commune of Shiu Shin (310.000 inhabitants living in 280 villages divided into 7 Popular Communes spread over 600 square k...
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958. A unit going to work in the fields. Commune of Shiu Shin (310.000 inhabitants living in 280 villages divided into 7 Popul
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958. Commune of Shiu Shin (310.000 inhabitants living in 280 villages divided into 7 Popular Communes spread over 600 square k...
Capitalist CHING-CHIH.
Peking. Beneath the modern sign advertising sneakers, vendors of lively chirping crickets.
Shanghai.
At Shanghai's Palace Culture, 10.000 workers come each Sunday to play ping pong, checkers, and listen to lectures. During the week, some 5000 visit d...
CHINA. Sinkiang Province. Urumchi. 1958. This Han majority Young Pioneer (Girl Scout) is charged with seeing that the people use pedestrian crossings, and fly s
CHINA. Sin Kiang. Urumchi. 1958.
CHINA. Beijing. An older professor corrects his class papers by the lake in the newly built King Chan Park. 1958.
Fujian. Fuzhou (coal town).
Shanghai.
General store in Tsao Yang, one of the newly built suburbs. The population of this suburb has "leaped ahead", along with the accelerated production o
Fujian. Fuzhou. Coal miners.
After a day in the coal mines, classes in the courtyard while the coal-blackned clothes dry. The courses include reading, writing,
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Liaoning Province. Shenyang. 1958.
Work-study programs are an integral part of Chinese university life. Here an engineering st
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958. Commune of Shiu Shin (310.000 inhabitants living in 280 villages divided into 7 Popular Communes spread over 600 square k...
CHINA. Shanghai. 1958.
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Liaoning Province. Shenyang. 1958.
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Liaoning Province. Shenyang. 1958.
Pigtailed students stride to class in the Engineering school.
CHINA. Beijing. 1958. The Chinese Culture Park. Exhibition on "Bridges and railroad systems", as an example of progress made since the Communist take-over.
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Ganzu province. Yumen. 1958. Whatever the city, whatever the region, the sound of drums and cymbals announces a workers delegat...
Liaoning Province. Shenyang.
Armed with a gay parasol and a shovel, two young ladies set off for their stint as volunteers on a community construction project.
Commune of Shiu Shin (310.000 inhabitants living in 280 villages divided into 7 Popular Communes spread over 600 square kilometers). It elects a management comm...
Lanchow. Volunteer labour turned to make a sewage system. According to the interpretor, the inhabitants of the district became impatient of town's delay in doin
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Liaoning Province. Shenyang. 1958. Worker in the industrial center are urged to produce "still bigger, still better, more quick
Ganzu province. Yumen.
Oil workers from the Petrol Combine, whose production has jumped 200% in the past ten years.
CHINA. Sin Kiang. Sian. 1958. As an after-school hours project, youngsters pave the sidewalks of their neighborhood under the supervision of their mothers.
CHINA. Beijing. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958. The extermination of China's four scourges: flies, mosquitoes, rats and sparrows, is the theme of this exhibit,
Peking.
Closed-circuit broadcast permits Chinese to view both themselves and TV for the first time at an exhibit in Palace of Culture.
CHINA. 1958.
CHINA. Hubei Province. Wuhan. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958. In heavy tooling factory, a worker regulates his milling machine. Construction of this factory sta
Fujian. Fuzhou (coal town).
The Langchow to Yumen train.
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958.
CHINA. Beijing. 1958. The Chinese Culture Park. Exhibition on "Bridges and railroad systems", as an example of progress made since the Communist take-over.
CHINA. Beijing. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958. The extermination of China's four scourges: flies, mosquitoes, rats and sparrows, is the theme of this exhibit,
