Mao Zedong at the beach at Beidaihe in 1960 -- Daily LIFT #1983

Mao Family Portrait, 1949 -- Daily LIFT #1982

Mao at Yenan illustration, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1979

Chairman Mao says: All our literature and art are for the masses of the people, and in the first place for the workers, peasants and soldiers; they are created for the workers, peasants and soldiers and are for their use. —.Talks at the Yenan Forum on Literature and Art, poster for the 25th anniversary of the famed talks, People's Republic of China, 1967 -- Daily LIFT #1977

The Red Army Does Not Fear the Trials of the Long March, lithograph, People's Republic of China -- Daily LIFT #1972

Mao stamps, German Democratic Republic, 1951 -- Daily LIFT #1971

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