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.
Supply convoy reaches Quemoy in China despite the communist Chinese blockade, during Cold War. Ships carry the supplies at sea. Men on landing craft at the sea. Men on deck. President Chiang Kai Shek arrives at a press conference in Formosa. He opposes reduction of garrisons on the off-shore islands. Mainland China rebuffs United States peace bids with an enormous Chinese propaganda demonstration in Peiping (Beijing) on the grounds of the old Imperial Palace. Communist Chinese demonstrate with boards, placards and flags in hand. A huge crowd gathers at the palace grounds and decries what it calls American aggression in the Taiwan strait. President Zhou Enlai addresses the massive crowd.
Conditions in Quemoy, China during the Second Taiwan Strait Crisis. Western press and media representatives climb up a mountain in Quemoy. The newsmen at a beach. They examine damaged buildings destroyed due to the Communist Chinese firing. Damaged roof of a building. Explosions occur on a nearby island. Chinese children take shelter in the underground of a building. A damaged building.
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.
Smiling woman worker outside the Fushun Oil Factory, a shale oil extraction facility, in Liaoning province, China during the Great Leap Forward. Oil storage tanks. A Chinese man in points to a propaganda cartoon drawn on a blackboard. Oil factory director wearing glasses and white shirt smiles, smokestacks behind. Chinese director shaking hands with an American visiting the oil refinery. American man wears a face mask. Man and woman lab technicians collect sample from a pipe and examine it in a graduated cylinder. The Fushun open pit coal mine. A jet of water in the open pit mine during hydraulic mining process. Water flows from mine. Cable cars on train tracks moving coal, hauling to the surface. Cable car containing coal is overturned into a hopper. Worker watches train rail cars full of coal pass by.
Chinese women in the workforce during the Great Leap Forward. The newly built observatory of Beijing Planetarium (138 Xizhimen Outer St, Dong Wu Yuan, Xicheng District, Beijing, China). Men working at construction site near the Beijing Planetarium. Laborers pulling a cart on the street. A floral red fabric running through a weaving machine at a textile factory. Chinese women working at combing machines in textile factory. Chinese women factory workers share a meal together, eating noodles from bowls. A Chinese factory worker nurses her child during her break time. Chinese boys wearing red scarves and holding flowers. A maternity hospital in Beijing, possibly the Beijing Obstetrics Gynecology Hospital. Hospital clinic windows in Beijing. A female Chinese doctor working at a community clinic stamps a document. A worker’s family grandmother holding a granddaughter in her arms. A woman cooks in the courtyard of a factory workers' apartment building.