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Henri Cartier-Bresson - CHINA. Beijing. December 1948.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Tai Chi Chuan in the Tai-miao Gardens.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Funeral procession.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. A mother huddles her baby close to her, hoping that her sign will bring help. A refugee in the big city. She has written "I am ca...
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Main south entrance to the Forbidden City.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Worried families look for sons or husbands, conscripted so fast that they could not notify their families.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Worried families gather to look for sons or husbands, conscripted so fast that they could not notify their families.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. As the morning mists clear over Beijing, a city surrounded by Communist troops, the Kuomintang calls some 10 000 recruits, mostly
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Imrovised toilet in the courtyard of a Taoist temple.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Street of antique dealers.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Each morning at dawn these men come to the Tai-miao Gardens to perform ritualistic exercises which serve not only to school the b...
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. During the last days of the Nationalist rule and the first days of the Communists, city streets were filled with speculators buyi
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. A few days before the arrival of the Communists. A blind fortune teller rings the high-pitched gong with which he announces his t
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Funeral.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. A tea-house, before the Communists came to the city. It is customary for people to carry their pet birds in cages to tea-houses.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Tai Chi Chuan in the Tai-miao Gardens.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. This old man (center) is a eunuch who once served in the court of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi when the Imperial Court counted 400
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. A merchant and a client greet each other. No anxiety mars their cordial meeting although the city is besieged by troops of the Pe...
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Tai Chi Chuan in the Tai-miao Gardens.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Final days of the Kuomintang. A peasant, whose market has closed down and came to Beijing to sell his vegetables, sits to eat his
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. This impervious old man at the right is a eunuch who once served in the court of the Dowager Empress Tzu Hsi when the Imperial Co...
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Itinerant dealer, he sells Chinese cigarettes with peanuts, imitating foreign trademarks more or less successfully.
In the shop ...
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. A bewildered old man searches for his son as the new recruits called up by the fast-weakening Kuomintang government march off to
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Polishing of Burmese jade.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Open-air market.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. A eunuch of the Imperial court of the last dynasty.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. The Forbidden City in the morning mist, a few days before the Communists arrival.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Searching for his son as the new recruits called up by the fast-weakening Kuomintang government march off to defeat.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Procession of an old fashion wedding.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. In one of the courtyards of the Imperial Palace. Soldiers drilling.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. A tea-house, before the Communists came to the city. It is customary for people to carry their pet birds in cages to tea-houses.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. Reading newspapers.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. The Forbidden City.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948.
CHINA. Beijing. December 1948. The Forbidden City in the morning mist, a few days before the Communists arrival.
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