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Henri Cartier-Bresson - CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958.

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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

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Sinkiang Province. Urumchi.

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CHINA. Beijing. 1958.

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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

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Liaoning Province. Anshan. 1958. Steel-works.

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Shanghai.

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958. This gigantic Sanmenshia Dam is being built on the Yellow River by 7000 permanent workers plus innumerable volunteers.

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CHINA. Shanghai. 1958.

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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

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. The

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

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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...

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Beijing.

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CHINA. Beijing. 1958.

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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

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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

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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...

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Fujian. Fuzhou (coal town).

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958.

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Peking.
Closed-circuit broadcast permits Chinese to view both themselves and TV for the first time at an exhibit in Palace of Culture.

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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...

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Capitalist CHING-CHIH.

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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,

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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

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Fujian. Fuzhou (coal town).

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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,

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CHINA. Beijing. An older professor corrects his class papers by the lake in the newly built King Chan Park. 1958.

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Liaoning Province. Shenyang. 1958. Worker in the industrial center are urged to produce "still bigger, still better, more quick

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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

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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,

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CHINA. Sin Kiang. Sian. 1958. As an after-school hours project, youngsters pave the sidewalks of their neighborhood under the supervision of their mothers.

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CHINA. Sin Kiang. Urumchi. 1958.

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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...

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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...

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CHINA. Beijing. 1958. The Chinese Culture Park. Exhibition on "Bridges and railroad systems", as an example of progress made since the Communist take-over.

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Peking. Beneath the modern sign advertising sneakers, vendors of lively chirping crickets.

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Liaoning Province. Shenyang. 1958.
Work-study programs are an integral part of Chinese university life. Here an engineering st

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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.

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The Langchow to Yumen train.

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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...

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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...

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CHINA. Hubei Province. Wuhan. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958. In heavy tooling factory, a worker regulates his milling machine. Construction of this factory sta

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Ganzu province. Yumen.
Oil workers from the Petrol Combine, whose production has jumped 200% in the past ten years.

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Liaoning Province. Shenyang. 1958.

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CHINA. Shanghai. 1958.

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CHINA. Beijing. 1958. The Chinese Culture Park. Exhibition on "Bridges and railroad systems", as an example of progress made since the Communist take-over.

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CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Liaoning Province. Shenyang. 1958.
Pigtailed students stride to class in the Engineering school.

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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

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CHINA. 1958.

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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

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