The driver waves down the "Red Flag" limousine while waiting outside the hotel, Beijing 1978
On the way to the airport we meet a military column, Beijing 1978
The first amateur painters dare to take to the streets again, market in Shanghai 1978
Soccer was also a big hit, Shanghai stadium, 1978
Residents of a model people's commune demonstrate determination in the "anti-imperialist struggle", 1978
Chess game at the edge of the beach, Shanghai 1978
In the provincial hospital of Zhengzhou we are allowed to observe an operation under acupuncture anesthesia through a dome, 1978
Visit to a hospital room after the operation, 1978
Waiting area in Zhengzhou Provincial Hospital, 1978
Acupuncture practice in the provincial hospital of Zhengzhou, 1978
Karl's skepticism towards the acupuncture needle, Zhengzhou 1978
Result: successful healing of an acute tonsillitis
Emperor's Canal lifeline between Hangzhou and Souzhou, China 1980
Workers in a lingerie factory in Beijing, 1978
Farmers offer poultry at the market, Guangshou 1978
Dental treatment in a hospital in Lin County, 1978
Comics are popular in this street in southern China, Guangshou 1978
Soup kitchen in Beijing, 1980
Typical cooking area with wok and steamer, China 1978
Farmers' market, sale of pakchoi, Shanghai 1978
Private farmers' market, Shanghai 1978
Elementary school "The East is glowing" in the countryside near Beijing, 1978
Class in the elementary school "The East is glowing", 1978
People's Commune "Evergreen" near Beijing, 1978
Laundry factory in Beijing, 1978
Delicious fried spring rolls, restaurant in Shanghai, 1980
Somewhere in Beijing, 1980
Lunch in Shanghai, 1980
Train passenger on the D train to Guangshou, 1980
Workers on the D train to Guangshou, 1980
First advertising for Western oil companies, Guangzhou 1980
Railroad workers, somewhere along the line, 1980
Supply vehicles of the express train in central China, 1978
Patient and employee in a factory for the blind, Shanghai 1978
Blind worker and caregiver in Shanghai factory for the blind, 1978
School soles? Cobbler on the roadside, China 1980
Lunch break and card game at the construction site of the Red Flag Canal, 1978
New blood in the "Ever Greeen" commune, 1978
Dining restaurant in Shanghai, China 1980
Dining restaurant and soup kitchen in Shanghai, 1978
Acupuncture treatment in a school for the deaf and dumb, 1978
Song in honor of the party, "The East glows"
Amateur painter at a farmers' market in Shanghai, 1978
View from the luxury hotel Broadway Mansions over to the Pudong district (still barely developed in 1978)

China 1978 BW

in 1978, Karl, then an enthusiastic Maoist, was given the opportunity by a China-loving building contractor to accompany one of the first tourist groups to the Middle Kingdom as a travel assistant. It was two years after Mao's death and the People's Republic of China was still an unknown land of "blue ants". The capital Beijing was still covered in a geometric network of single-storey courtyard houses (hutongs) and in Shanghai, in the future boom district of Pujiang, there were only warehouses. The devout Maoist was fascinated by the people and the culture, but Karl found the dictatorial system of a Stalinist organized, extremely privileged party structure deeply repulsive and subsequently turned away from Maoist ideology. in 1980, he again traveled to China as a tour guide with a GDCF tour group (via Transsib). Both trips involved the use of slide films as well as black and white negatives.