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.
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. Other industrial and consumer goods are shown. View of newly built Chinese cars for consumers. Turbines of different sizes on display. Chinese boys climb on a steam locomotive railroad train. 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. Chinese woman stands by a solar collector or solar powered cooker and removes lid of the 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 woman threshes millet at a Chinese commune during the Great Leap Forwards. A young Chinese girl hold millet or corn stalks. Elderly men carry armfuls of husks. Students Peking Universities and high schools (now Beijing) laboring on the weekend as duty to the Great Leap Forward. Young Chinese men and women digging soil with shovels and carrying soil in baskets slung between poles. Donkeys pulling carts on a road. People follow donkey carts to pick up vegetables or seeds as part of a no waste policy associated with the Leap Forward. Rural road north of Beijing as seen from a moving vehicle. People cycling past a workers’ apartment. Camel caravans transporting goods and herd of goats on road. A Chinese man stands beside a camel. The Great Wall of China extending over a mountain range. Goats gathered on top of a stone with Chinese characters written on it that translate to, "Support the Convservation Program." A Chinese man stands on the Great Wall of China. A white American man walking on the Great Wall of China.
Activities of the Allied forces in the China Burma India Theater of World War II. Chinese Premier Chiang Kai Shek and his wife arrive to review troops in ChungKing, China. Chinese nurses and soldiers march as General Chinag Kai Shek reviews the United Nations troops. Troops carry portraits of British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin. Commander of China Burma India Theater General Joseph Stilwell arrives after attending a conference in Washington D.C. Reinforcements arrive in India as soldiers carry bags. Allied soldiers smoke with Indian soldiers. A soldier buys bananas from a vendor. In Indian state of Bengal mule pack trains cross Tibet as they carry supplies for China. Mule packs pass through the Himalayas.
Retreat ceremonies at a French Army camp in China. Hills and fields in China. Barracks at a French Army camp. The French flag on a pole. Soldiers line up and prepare for the Retreat ceremony. They march and give a rifle salute. Two soldiers play bugles. An officer lowers the flag. Soldiers salute. Soldiers, cows, carts and supplies at the camp. (World War II period).
Japanese troops capture Nanning in China. Japanese troops march amidst mountains in China. They march with artillery. They cross Ford River by wading with horses. Japanese troops attack city. Explosions in city. The flag of Japan. Japanese troops march on horseback. View of victory march. (World War II period).