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May 16, 1938

Chinese defender

 
 
           
    June 30, 1941
China Madame Chiang Kai-shek
 

ARTICLE
China: To the Mountains

         

 

    May 04, 1942    
         

 

    December 13, 1943
Citizen of Sinkiang China
(Sinkiang - Xinjiang)
 

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY
Sinkiang
 

         

 

    April 29, 1946
Peiping China Beautiful City In Color

 

 

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY
Peiping, Photographs for LIFE

         

 

    March 2, 1953
China Prepares for War on Formosa
(Formosa - Taiwan)
 

COVER
Chinese soldiers get ready on Formosa

THE WEEK'S EVENTS
Free Chinese cry " Liberate the Mainland"

         

 

    January 5, 1959
China New Generation
 

COVER
The face of young China: in Shanghai anti-American speech is applauded

PHOTOGRAPHIC ESSAY
Red China bid for a future: young and old join in "The Great Leap Forward."

ARTICLE
Misery, opperssion, fear inside China's communes:
two Chinese who escaped tell of harsh regimentation which tears families apart and even regulates sex

         

 

    May 04, 1959    
           
    October 19, 1959
Peking China Mums and Missiles
 

COVER
During Khrushchev's visit, Chinese youths wave scarves and paper mums against a background of model missile and planes

THE WEEK'S EVENTS
Big show, no glow for K. in Red China

         

 

    September 23, 1966
Mao China 100 Violent Years
 

The 100 Violent Years Behind Mao's Red Rule
Part 1. How China was breached by the West after 20 inviolate centuries:

the Opium Wars; the murderous Boxer rebellion. A nation imprisoned by her history

         

 

    January 20, 1967
China Crisis in Mao Purge
 

'Tatzepao' - Grim News for China
The crisis of Mao Tse-tung's Red Guard power play and split in the Chinese Communist hierarchy. The logic of history weighs against Maoism

         

 

    June 2, 1967
China Red Guard Torture and Degradation
 

Escape from the Red Guard
A cultural leader of Red China who fled to U.S. tells his story: Cruelty and insanity made me a fugitive

 

         

 

    April 30, 1971
Inside China
 

The Great Wall Comes Down     In a week the visiting American table-tennis team and accompanying journalists went to Peking, Shanghai and Canton, and met with Chou En-lai

'A Country Being Worked Very Hard'
A Conversation with Mao      The Chinese leader in a unusual five-hour talk with an American who has known him for 35 years. (By Edgar Snow)
Editorial     Reopening the door to China
The Presidency     Nixon has long hoped to make contacts with China and now, aides report, his is "thirsting" to go there himself.

         

 

    July 30, 1971
China Premier Chou En-lai

 

 

Peking's View of the Nixon Mission
China will talk from a position of strength.

The American journalist Edgar Snow writes about the President's visit out of long personal knowledge of China's leaders

           
    March 03, 1972    
           
    October 1980
Faces of an Unexpected China

 

   
                             

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