Part 2 of 2. The two doctors making their rounds. TLC Editor's Note: The barefoot doctor program emerged in response to a severe shortage of doctors in rural China, where most physicians were concentrated in urban areas. Before 1949 and the triumph of the Revolution, there were only about 40,000 doctors for a population of roughly 540 million, leaving rural communities vulnerable to diseases such as schistosomiasis. The program was formalized after Mao Zedong’s 1965 directive

Part 1 of 2. Preventive inoculations. TLC Editor's Note: The barefoot doctor program emerged in response to a severe shortage of doctors in rural China, where most physicians were concentrated in urban areas. Before 1949 and the triumph of the Revolution, there were only about 40,000 doctors for a population of roughly 540 million, leaving rural communities vulnerable to diseases such as schistosomiasis. The program was formalized after Mao Zedong’s 1965 directive, which emph

Mao Receives the Model Workers, painting, Li Mo Bai People's Republic of China, 1964 -- Daily LIFT #1922

Chairman Mao having a smoke on a train, 1954 -- Daily LIFT #1918

Mao meeting with African and Asian writers in Beijing, 1964 -- Daily LIFT #1904

Mao writing while on an airplane flight, 1957 If you want to know a certain thing or a certain class of things directly, you must personally participate in the practical struggle to change reality, to change that thing or class of things, for only thus can you come into contact with them as phenomena; only through personal participation in the practical struggle to change reality can you uncover the essence of that thing or class of things and comprehend them. Marxism emphasi

Mao with student delegates to the Ninth Congress of the Communist Youth League of China in Beijing, 1964 -- Daily LIFT #1902

Vietnam-China solidarity float, 1964 -- Daily LIFT #1899

Mao and Ho Chi Minh, 1959 -- Daily LIFT #1898

The People's Communes Are Good, school poster, Rui Guangting, People's Republic of China, 1958 -- Daily LIFT #1891 The poster's title is from a quote by Mao.

A woodcut portrait of Chairman Mao made by three staff members of the Capital Iron and Steel Company. It was two meters high. -- Daily LIFT #1883

Chairman Mao Writes His Big Character Poster "Bombard the Headquarters", poster, People's Republic of China c. 1968 -- Daily LIFT #1882

The cave-house at the tool at Phoenix Mountain where Comrade Mao at one time lived. Excerpted from an article by Ruth Lake, a New Zealander visiting Yenan (now translated as Yan'an), People's Republic of China, in 1966 (China Reconstructs Magazine): The caves are one of the greatest surprises in Yenan, We have seen pictures of these hillsides pierced with a thousand eyes, the rows of arched caves extending along ledged terraces to house colleges, cadres. hospital and armymen,

Chairman Mao at work in the cave dwelling at Date Orchard, Yenan, 1946 -- Daily LIFT #1870

Mao plaque, People's Republic of China, c. 1969 -- Daily LIFT #1848 The rim inscription reads “Warmly celebrate the successful convening of the Ninth National Congress of the CPC”.

Worker and Peasant, photo, People's Republic of China 1956 -- Daily LIFT #1846 "The transition from New Democracy to socialism...depends primarily upon their alliance" - Mao

Wise words to remember from Chairman Mao -- Daily LIFT #1845

Chairman Mao checking out a Dongfeng CA71 Car, 1958 -- Daily LIFT #1832 The Dongfeng CA71, produced in 1958 by First Automotive Works (FAW), was the first passenger car to be manufactured entirely in China, marking a key milestone in Chinese automotive history. The Dongfeng CA71 was developed by FAW in Changchun during the Great Leap Forward, with its first prototype completed on May 12, 1958. FAW was founded in 1953 with support from the Soviet Union and initially focused on

By Bisharat Abbasi Today we commemorate the birth of Comrade Chairman Mao Zedong (1893- 1976) one of the greatest revolutionary figures of the twentieth century and a giant of anti-imperialist history. Mao was not merely a Chinese leader; he was a world-historical figure who fundamentally altered the global balance of forces by smashing semi-colonial subjugation, defeating imperialism and feudalism, and founding the People’s Republic of China in 1949. For the oppressed nation

Chairman Mao at the celebrations for the 20th anniversary of the formation of the People's Republic of China, October 1, 1969 -- Daily LIFT #1822 "Once China's destiny is in the hands of the people, China, like the sun rising in the east, will illuminate every corner of the land with a brilliant flame, swiftly clean up the mire left by the reactionary government, heal the wounds of war and build a new, powerful and prosperous people's republic worthy of the name." -- Mao just