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Henri Cartier-Bresson - CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958.
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. 1958.
Near pagoda Market, youngsters learn from this poster: "When your classes are finished you run home, but Mama w...
USSR. Moscow. 1958. Russian journalist and writer, Ilya EHRENBOURG.
Beijing.
China. Peking.
Workers pull a new lathe through the streets. Such sights are a frequently seen symptom of China's growing industrial pains.
Peking.
University students.
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. 1958. Students plunge into a swampy bog in order to make themselves a swimming pool rather than wait for unavailable m
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. 1958.
With the intense desire to learn that is so typical of the Chinese, visitors measure and take notes on new tool
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. 1958.
Building up cadres of engineers and scientists is a major aim of the Communist regime. This student is studying
CHINA. Beijing. 1958.
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. 1958. A face out of China's eternal past peers impassively at an exhibition in Park of Culture where the "Bridge and R...
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. 1958. Students plunge into a swampy bog in order to make themselves a swimming pool rather than wait for unavailable m
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. 1958. Visitors take notes on a peasant invention at National Farm Implements Exhibit. The government encourages such i
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Shanghai. 1958. Laborers play a Sunday game of checkers in one of the city's nineteen "cultural" clubs.
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". 1958. Building the Ming Tombs Dam.
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. 1958.
Beijing.
Drawing class.
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. 1958. Agricultural Fair.
CHINA. The "Great Leap Forward". Beijing. 1958. Agricultural Fair.
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