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Street scenes in Beijing, China during the Great Leap Forward.
Life in Beijing, China during the Great Leap Forward. Chinese men stand with their bicycles in Beijing traffic. Bicycles, cars and pedicabs with heavy sacks on the street. A Chinese man pushes a baby in a stroller made of wicker. A wood burning bus with wood gasifier mounted on back. A large, dilapidated Chinese building with signage as seen from a moving car. Pedestrians run while crossing the street. A traffic officer stands under an umbrella as he directs passing vehicles. A truck pulls a string of trailers carrying a load of coal and decorated with banners and paper flowers celebrating the Great Leap Forward. A stupa, possibly The White Dagoba Stupa, Beihai Park. Chinese family including grandparents and children. Young men digging with shovels in front of a Chinese pagoda. Chinese men with bicycles waiting to cross the road. People visit the Monument to the People's Heroes (Tiananmen Square, Dongcheng, Beijing, China). A girl walking outside St. Joseph’s Church (74 Wangfujing, Dong Dan, Dongcheng, China) in Beijing. Bicycles pass apartment buildings and government offices in Beijing.
The Summer Palace park in Beijing, China
Fancy goldfish swimming in pool at the Summer Palace (19 Xinjiangongmen Rd, Haidian District, China, 100091) in Beijing, China. Flowers at the Summer Palace. The Marble Boat lakeside pavilion and pagoda at the Summer Palace. A Chinese boy wearing a red neckerchief climb on a stone lion statue (shishi) at the Summer Palace during the Great Leap Forward.
The Ming Tombs and construction laborers in Beijing, China
The Ming Tombs in Beijing, China. Stone elephants adorn the Spirit Way, the road leading to the Ming Tombs. A gate at the Ming Tombs. A white man in sunglasses walks in front of The Soul Tower at Changling Tomb. Chinese men in white shirts stand in front of the Chang Ling Ming tomb A man throws trash into a wooden trash bin. Shirtless laborers wearing coolie hats lift a stone block at a reservoir construction site near the tombs. Woman and man construction workers push wheelbarrows as others labor in the background. Men tamping down soil using a primitive compactor. Forms for a concrete arched bridge. A Chinese laborer smiles. A soldier in uniform worker laughs during the Great Leap Forward.
Chinese parade with flags in Beijing, China; signs urge U.S. to leave Taiwan.
Seal of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Communist People's Republic of China during the "Great Leap Forward." Beijing skyline and its surrounding suburbs. Crowds carrying banners and marching during a rehearsal for the People’s Republic of China’s National Day. Chinese young men carrying banners translate to, "Taiwan must be liberated" and "United States must get out of Taiwan." A young Chinese woman smiles while holding a red banner. Buses, bicycles, horse drawn carts, and cars pass through Tiananmen Square, Beijing’s “Red Square”. The western and eastern walls have giant placards that read "Long Live the People's Republic of China" and "Long Live the Great Unity of the World's Peoples". A man pushes a cart full of bricks. A man slides bricks down a wooden chute at a construction site where a sewer is being built. A construction site building a sewer.
Great Leap Forward agricultural show at Beijing Exhibition Center, Beijing, China
Visitors from all over China attend the agricultural exhibition at the Beijing Exhibition Center (Beijing Exhibition Center, Zoo, Xicheng District, China) during the Great Leap Forward. Agricultural machinery and equipment are on display. Floral and traditional Chinese textiles on display. Rototilling machines. A visitor turns the wheel of rice transplanting machine. Chinese visitors watch a running combine harvester. Chinese farming tractors on display including some that run on alternate fuels. A steam tractor on display. Men sitting on red tractors. New Chinese made cars. Turbines of different sizes on display. Chinese boys climb on a steam locomotive. One of the first steam shovels made in China. Irrigation machinery of various types on display, including wind powered, pour water into a pond through pipes. A woman opens a solar cooker and removes lid of steaming pot inside. An elderly Chinese man and a woman talking to each other. Chinese children playing by the pool outside the Beijing Exhibition Center. Chinese girls smiling.
Chinese commune workers near Beijing, China during Great Leap Forward.
Chinese farmers plowing a field at a commune north of Beijing. The farmers digging furrows deeper with shovels. "Plow deep to bury the American aggressor is the slogan,” says the narrator. Carpenters sawing wood outdoors. A man strips bark from lumber using a draw shave tool. Workers repairing roof of commune building. Chinese women and children picking vegetables, harvesting crops. Farmers examine heads of Chinese Cabbage. A blind folded donkey powers an irrigation pump. Chinese woman farmers threshing millet with help from children. Harvested corn hanging on poles and husked corn in baskets. “Their corn is very poor, some of it is fairly good.” says the narrator.