This picture is most likely of workers building the Hunan-Guizhou Railroad. The name is inspired by a Mao poem that says"“一桥飞架南北,天堑变通途.” Source
徐文隆, 战天堑, 1973
A women’s health class in 1955
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The Guangzhou acrobatics troupe performs in Australia in
September 1973 Source
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A village watches TV at the local old people’s home in 1986
The local government donated the TV. Yanling County, Henan Source
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Taipei Train Station in 1948
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A collection: Daily life in Inner Mongolia in 1965
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The first Zhu De locomotive comes off the line in 1946
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A well inside the Xian city wall in 1956
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The Chinese Red Cross takes an injured steel factory worker to the hospital in 1960
This laborer worked at Ma'anshan Steel in Anhui. This picture is striking, because a huge number of people died in Anhui during the Great Leap Famine, and 1960 was one of the worst years. This picture also raises questions about the practice of medicine during the Great Leap Famine. What did medical staff do during the famine?... Continue Reading →
