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A scene in a kindergarten in Sian
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No holiday passes without political playlets in the city parks. This photo, taken in Peking, satirizes the U.S. policy in Viet Nam. The man in the high hat is President Johnson. The man on the ground is General Maxwell Taylor, being punished by President
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Children in a kindergarten playing "bus"
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The song and dance have now become essential parts of life in China but both are being used primarily to carry through the party line. These girls, in a Peking park, show Viet Nam guerrillas pursuing the Americans.
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A cable factory in Shanghai. The poster in the background urges the workers to follow the "Three Red Banners" -- "Long Live the General Line of the Party" --"Long Live the Great Leap Forward" -- "Long Live the People's Communes"
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An exhibition of built in China industrial machinary in Shanghai, in what was once the Hall of Soviet Chinese Friendship. These are all prototypes, and are never seen in use in factories open to the western visitor. They occasionally crop up, however...
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A street display of propaganda films and publications
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Every city has its displays of propaganda cartoons and photographs. This is a typical one.
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An anti-American demonstration in Peking. Part of the banner top centre suggests these are workers from a paper-making plant. The cartoon in the right hand top corner says "Johnson Has Lost His Mind Again".
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The offices of the People's Daily, the official organ of the Communist Party. It is "must" reading for every Communist and every official who wants to get ahead.
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A sidewalk tea shop in Sian in western China. There is no private enterprise in China and even this establishment is owned by a cooperative.
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Agriculture in China is still decades from mechanization. These are scenes from one of the most famous communes in China, in the province of Shansi.
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A girl weaving a rug in Mongolia
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Factory scenes in China: 46 shows a machine tool plant
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Factory scenes in China: 45 shows a woman worker
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A peasant woman with her grandchild. In contrast to the past, the children are uniformly well-fed and healthy.
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The offices of the People's Daily, the official organ of the Communist Party. It is "must" reading for every Communist and every official who wants to get ahead.
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Agriculture in China is still decades from mechanization. These are scenes from one of the most famous communes in China, in the province of Shansi.
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A street scene in Yenan, in 1937-47 capital of Red China. The caves in the background were used by Mao and his fellow leaders as well as by universities, hospitals, editorial offices and army headquarters.
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Agriculture in China is still decades from mechanization. These are scenes from one of the most famous communes in China, in the province of Shansi.
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Girls in a peasant dance.
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Caves used as homes in western China
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A scene at the largest steel-making plant in China, in Anshan. This foundry was build by the Russians around 1952, and is probably behind similar foundries in Japan or the west.
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Girls dance in a park before a poster pledging Chinese help to the Vietnamese in their struggle against "U.S. Imperialism".
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By and large, the young people of China are dedicated, proud of their country and its achievements and ignorant of the outside world. A typical young man, a Russian-speaking guide in Peking.
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The song and dance have now become essential parts of life in China but both are being used primarily to carry through the party line. These girls, in a Peking park, show Viet Nam guerrillas pursuing the Americans.
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An old man in charge of a portable library of comics for the kids. Almost without exception these comics are humorless and political. They preach a hatred for the United States and Japanese imperialism, seek to inculcate love for Mao Tse-tung and provide
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Anti-American propaganda posters on display in a street in west China. These are now an integral part of the Chinese landscape.
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Foreigners living in Peking and working for the Chinese government stage a demonstration in a Peking park. Their banner reads "Death to Imperialism!"
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The principal of the University of Shansi in the city of Taiyuan in western China. The woman is his deputy.
