View from the luxury hotel Broadway Mansoins over to the Pudong district (barely built on in 1978)
Truck driver somewhere near Beijing, 1978
Grandmother with "bound", crippled feet in a people's commune "Evergreen" near Beijing, 1978
Residents of a model people's commune demonstrate determination in the "anti-imperialist struggle", 1978
Acupuncture practice in the provincial hospital of Zhengzhou, 1978
In the provincial hospital of Zhengzhou we are allowed to observe an operation under acupuncture anesthesia through a dome, 1978
During spinal cord surgery, the patient is observed under acupuncture anesthesia, Zhengzhou 1978
Simple street canteen in Beijing, steamed jiaozi or dumplings and beer from a bucket, 1987
Bicycles with sidecars were frequently seen on the streets of Beijing, 1987
In 1978, Beijing had just three high-rise buildings in the middle of a network of single-story courtyard houses (hutongs)
The bicycle was also dominant on the major boulevards, Beijing 1978
Agitprop group sings songs about the benefits of the revolution in an overland train, 1978
In a display case, people currently sentenced to death are shown shortly before execution, 1978
Model house in the rural commune "The East is glowing" near Beijing, 1978
Engine power is rare, workers pull their construction machines to the next building site; Nanjing 1978
Elementary school "The East is glowing" in the countryside near Beijing, 1978
Visit to a factory for the blind in Shanghai, 1978
Rice fields in the river plain of Guilin, South China 1981

China Travel 1978 Color

in 1978, as a Maoist "believer" for years, I 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 the unknown land of the "blue ants". The capital Beijing still consisted of a geometric network of single-storey courtyard houses (hutongs) and in Shanghai, in the later boom district of Pujiang, there were only warehouses. The tour group was mainly presented with showcase communities, but after persistent questioning they were also shown businesses for the disabled. KaJo was fascinated by the people, but he found the dictatorial system under an extremely privileged party structure repulsive and subsequently turned his back on Maoist ideology. in 1980, Karl traveled again as a tour guide for a tour group (via Transsib). On both trips, KaJo worked with both slide film and b/w negative.