China today (1972)

Rural landscape, view of a river.

Mountain landscape, panorama of hills, view of a part of the Great Wall of China.

Views and panorama of different sections of the Great Wall.

Half-ruined and preserved sections of the Great Wall, one of the entrances to the Great Wall.

Battlements and steps of the wall.

Fragments of the Great Wall, loopholes.

Views of the wall with loopholes.

Sections of the wall going down and going up, towers of the wall.

A stream flows.

Buddhist temple in the forest thicket.

Statues of Buddha at the walls of the temple.

Upper parts of the statues.

Bas-reliefs on the wall of the temple (panorama).

Fragments of bas-reliefs, images of Buddha.

Sculptures of Buddha in the temple, fragments of statues.

Views of reservoirs near the imperial palace in the Forbidden City in Beijing, water lilies and lilies on the water.

Views of the pagoda.

One of the buildings of the imperial palace complex.

Bell on the cornice.

View of part of the garden (from above).

View of the pagoda.

Wooden bridge over a pond.

Lilies blooming on the water.

Altar with a statue of Buddha in one of the temples, head of Buddha.

Fragment of the interior decoration of the temple, statue of Buddha.

Dragon figurine, head of the statue.

Fragments of carved decorations of the throne of Buddha (panorama).

Statue of a deity playing a musical instrument, fragments of the statue.

Statues of various deities.

Sword in the hand of one of the statues.

Patterns decorating the statue.

Fresco on one of the statues.

Views of the Forbidden City in Beijing.

Sundial on the square in front of one of the palaces.

Views of the territory of the museum complex of the imperial palace, fragments of carved decorations on the walls of buildings and arches.

Figured carved door handle.

Panorama of part of the palace complex.

Decorations on the cornices of buildings in the form of dragon figurines.

Panorama of the square in front of the main imperial palace.

Gilded statues of lions at the entrance to the palace, fragments of statues.

Sculpture of a turtle on the palace grounds.

Statue of a lion.

Giant bowls-cauldrons on the territory of the palace complex.

Steps of the staircase leading to the entrance to the palace.

Panorama of the square of the palace complex in the Forbidden City.

View of the building of the main Imperial Palace Gugong.

The main staircase of the palace.

Carved decorations on the landings of the stairs leading to the palace, view of the stairs.

Carved decorations on the steps of the stairs.

Views of parts of the building of the main imperial palace, fragments of decorations and architecture of the palace, carved images of deities and dragons.

Stairs leading to the imperial throne.

Sculpture of a stork at the throne.

Interior views and decorations of the throne room.

Vessels decorated with patterns, fragments of patterns.

Caskets decorated with patterns and figures of lions and dragons.

Statuette of an elephant decorated with deer antlers, head of the statuette.

Carved chest in the museum exhibition.

Fragments of carved ornament.

Interiors of the palace rooms, furniture made of jasper.

Museum exhibits.

Painting on the wall.

Lamps decorated with patterns standing on the table.

Works of Chinese artists of the Ming era, executed on canvas and carved from bone and presented in the museum exhibition.

Examples of stone carving, fragments of carving.

Decorations on tableware, vases and bowls.

Interiors of the imperial study.

A boat in the form of a dragon, carved from bone, figurines of rowers.

Model of a pagoda tower, carved from bone.

Figures of people at different levels of the tower.

View of the tower from the bottom up.

Vases painted with patterns and images of dragons.

Artistic carving on one of the vases.

A large vase decorated with a painting.

Trees in the park.

Houses in the old town.

Panorama of the tiled roof.

Figures decorating the cornices of buildings.

Sculptures of a dragon and an elephant.

View of a gazebo with carved decorations.

Examples of stone carving.

Views of part of the park and garden.

Flower beds laid out in the park.

Faces of artists making sketches.

A blossoming flower.

The artist makes a sketch of a flower.

View of one of the paths in the park, sculptures of lions and other animals along the path.

Fragments of stone sculptures of lions.

Sculptures of camels installed in the park.

Stone head of a horse.

Sculptures of horses installed along the road leading to the museum.

Sculptures of ancient warriors.

Sculptures of elephants installed opposite each other on the sides of the road.

Sculptures of animals on the sides of the road.

Buildings and architecture of the old quarter.

A stone bed in the museum exposition.

A bowl with a dragon painted on it in one of the museum halls.

An image of a dragon on the wall of a vase.

An arched passage between the museum halls.

Jewelry and ornaments on display at the museum.

A gold tea set.

Silver and gold tableware.

Examples of jewelry and ornaments with precious stones.

Coins from different eras on display at the museum.

Buddhist pagodas on the banks of the Yangtze.

Entrance to one of the pagodas.

Carved decorations on the pedestal of a lion statue, fragments of the statue.

Panorama of part of a building - an example of ancient Chinese architecture.

Decorations of ancient buildings, patterns and paintings on columns and cornices.

Dragon figurines on the edge of the roof.

Vessels decorated with ornaments on the area in front of the house.

Dragon statue.

Peacock sculpture.

Views of the park of the palace complex in the Forbidden City.

Panorama of the roofs of ancient buildings.

Bridges over canals with pavilions built on them.

Views of the embankment.

Views of the Great Wall of China.

Views and panorama of parts of the Great Wall of China.

Military exercises of a self-defense unit in one of the rural communes.

Peasants with rifles take up a firing position.

A squad of soldiers simulating the enemy forces one of the peasants to cooperate, the officer sends a sapper with a mine detector forward.

Peasants practicing guerrilla actions.

A strip of imitation explosions along the edge of a field.

Commune residents and local pioneers gather in the square.

Militiamen armed with machine guns and rifles run in a column one by one to their positions.

Young men and women at the firing line load their rifles and prepare to open fire.

Targets turn over as a result of hits, a girl opens fire.

Young men with carbines with fixed bayonets stand at full height at the firing line.

Hit targets.

Schoolchildren with rifles take up a position at the firing line, prepare to open fire, a girl loads her weapon.

Schoolchildren begin to fire.

Schoolchildren stand up to their full height, take a step back, pull back the bolts and present their weapons for inspection.

The commander of a militia unit gives an interview to a foreign journalist, the militiamen stand in formation.

Faces of militiamen of different ages.

A foreign journalist begins asking questions to a girl with a rifle, standing in formation.

The girl’s face, children with rifles in the militia formation.

View of one of the rice paddies.

Peasants are walking with yokes on their shoulders.

Rural landscape (panorama).

Peasants are carrying baskets on yokes.

Two children are sitting on a bridge over an irrigation canal.

Water is pouring from a pipe of the irrigation system.

Peasants are working in a rice field.

Planting rice shoots in a flooded field.

Work of one of the sections of the irrigation system.

Rice shoots in a flooded field.

Panorama of flooded rice fields in one of the rural communes of China.

The production process in the open-hearth shop of one of the industrial enterprises of China.

The face of the foreman of the steelmakers.

Issuance of the next melt of steel, the steelmakers observe the process, containers with red-hot steel.

The process of steel smelting.

The interior view of the engine production shop, transportation of finished engines.

Assembly of trucks on the conveyor of a Chinese automobile plant, installation of a cabin.

The fitter at work.

Faces of the workers.

A passenger car assembled on the conveyor, with an installed engine.

Adjusting the engine.

Trucks assembled on the conveyor drive out to the finished goods area.

New passenger cars go to the finished goods area.

New cars drive out of the plant.

A foreign journalist interviews a worker and his family members sitting at the table, children's faces.

The head of the family answers questions, lights a cigarette.

Faces of a foreign journalist and children, the head of the family continues to answer questions and talk about his life, faces of the children and the worker's wife.

The mother adjusts the clothes of her youngest son.

The head of the family continues to answer the foreign correspondent's questions.

New trucks drive through the territory of the automobile plant.

Production processes at a confectionery factory, a worker's face.

Finished products of the factory, packed in metal boxes.

Packing sweets into boxes.

Loading a ship at the port.

A cargo ship under loading at the berth.

Ships on the Yangtze River near Shanghai.

A traffic light with a traffic controller's booth at one of the intersections.

Automobile transport on the streets of the city.

Views of the streets of Chinese cities, people and public transport on the streets.

A traffic controller at the intersection.

Young people driving by on a moped.

A poster on the wall of a house.

A portrait of Mao Zedong above the entrance to one of the rooms of a medical institution.

Medical workers with Mao's quotation books in their hands, faces of girls reading Mao's quotes aloud.

Conducting a surgical operation.

An anesthesiologist at work.

Progress of the operation.

Model of a human ear with acupuncture points indicated.

Conducting an operation to restore the auricle.

Entrance to the clinic.

The head physician at the table in the office.

The doctor talks to the patient.

The doctor conducts an acupuncture session.

Sticking needles into points on the patient's back.

The doctor puts cups on the patient's back, the doctor's face.

The patient's face, cups on the patient's back.

The doctor removes cups.

People relaxing in a city park.

Piglets graze on the lawn.

People stand at the entrance to a building.

Women rinse laundry in a stream.

An elderly man passes by.

A chicken runs among the trees.

A woman leads a child by the hand along a path in the park.

Views of dwellings in working-class neighborhoods, girls walk past houses.

Panorama of tiled roofs of residential buildings in one of the provinces of China.

Girls in a room.

One of the girls is reading a book, posters and photographs are on the wall.

A girl is sitting on a bed and darning linen, part of the room's interior.

A girl's face.

Interior of a living space.

A girl in the kitchen by the stove begins to cook dinner.

The girl lifts a wicker cap and shows off the finished dishes.

Bowls of meat and rice with gravy.

Young people answer questions from a foreign correspondent, faces of young men and women.

Harvesting tea by hand, tea leaves are poured into baskets.

Women work on a tea plantation.

View of a tea plantation.

Picking tea leaves.

Women pour the collected tea leaves into a common basket.

Ripening millet.

Tea pickers returning from work, views of a tea plantation.

Dazibao on the street of one of the Chinese cities.

Workers of an oil refinery going to their shift, a worker with an open umbrella passes by.

People on the street of a workers' settlement.

Views of one of the petrochemical enterprises in China.

The production process in a fertilizer workshop.

Stacking bags of fertilizers.

View of a part of a stack of bags of fertilizers.

The face of a forklift driver.

Transportation of bags of fertilizers using a forklift.

The face of a girl.

The interior of the enterprise's computing center.

Scales of control and measuring devices, an employee records the readings of the devices.

Schoolchildren walking down the street to class.

Chinese schoolchildren going to class.

The teacher writes hieroglyphs with chalk on the board, turns to face the class and asks a question.

The junior students answer the question in chorus, the children's faces.

The students draw a hieroglyph with their fingers in the air.

The students at their desks write in their notebooks.

Writing hieroglyphs in a notebook.

The faces of the students writing hieroglyphs.

The students copying a poster posted on the board during an art lesson.

Playing ball in the school yard.

The children play badminton and jump rope during a break.

The students play various games during a break, the students' faces.

Playing table tennis.

A political literacy lesson in one of the senior classes.

The faces of the senior students repeating Mao Zedong's quotes after the teacher.

A badge with a portrait of Mao Zedong on the jacket of one of the girls answering the lesson, the girl's face.

Teachers and students answering questions from a foreign correspondent.

Schoolchildren go on a hike, those walking in front carry a red banner and a portrait of Mao Zedong, faces of the participants in the hike.

Views of a column of schoolchildren walking along the road.

Performance of an amateur school group with a military-patriotic composition.

Children march on the stage with a red banner, singing songs.

Faces of the participants in the composition reciting poems.

Schoolchildren march in place, shouting out the words of slogans.

Performing a dance with red banners and ribbons.

Young people with open umbrellas walk along the bank of an irrigation canal, faces of the walking boys and girls.

A portrait of Mao Zedong on the wall, young sculptors are working on a model of a sculptural group on a military-patriotic theme, faces of the sculptors.

A sculpture lesson in one of the classes of an art school.

Artists paint porcelain figurines.

Interior view of art workshop.

Painting a bird figurine.

Painting porcelain figurines.

Packing terracotta figurines into round boxes.

A worker lights the kiln.

Removing round boxes with terracotta and porcelain figurines from the kiln after the firing process is complete.

Packing finished souvenirs.

Artists paint a flower pattern. applying a picture to fabric using various technologies.

Drawing with ink on fabric.

The process of dyeing fabrics and fixing a pattern to them, faces of workers.

Finished fabric with a pattern.

A worker at a loom.

Production processes at a silk-weaving factory.

Making posters on a silk base on an automatic loom.

Samples of patterns for application and embroidery on fabric, interior view of an art workshop.

Artists at work.

Creating a pattern sketch.

Making paintings on fabric and tapestries by hand, faces of craftsmen.

Interior view of part of the tapestry workshop.

Craftsmen at work stamping patterns.

Cleaning an embroidered pattern with scissors.

Samples of carpet factory products.

Weaving patterns from straw.

Making straw handbags, hats and other souvenirs, craftswomen at work.

Embroidering a pattern on a hat by hand.

The process of embroidering colored patterns on handbags and other straw items.

Embroidery floss, craftsmen embroider an image on fabric, looking at a sample on paper.

The process of hand embroidering pattern elements.

Landscape on the wall.

Hand embroidery of a cat.

The face of one of the embroiderers.

The process of hand embroidering patterns on fabric.

Interior views of the embroidery workshop.

Portrait of a European man in 17th century clothing, as a sample for embroidery.

Portrait of a man, embroidered on fabric based on a sample.

Pictures embroidered on fabric by hand.

Embroiderers at work.

Portraits of Mao Zedong and the leaders of the Chinese revolution, as samples for embroidery.

Portrait of Mao Zedong, hand embroidered on fabric.

Several craftswomen making embroidery based on a painting depicting Mao Zedong meeting with workers.

Embroiderers at work, the process of hand embroidery.

A panel with a portrait of Mao Zedong, hand embroidered on fabric, fragments of the panel.

An art school student presents his work - a sculpture group - to an art council.

Student faces.

Statues made by student sculptors.

An artist paints a full-length portrait of Mao Zedong from a photograph.