Articles
RED CHINA: Ten Red Years
In Peking, Red China's commissars scurried about putting the final touches on preparations for this week's celebration of the tenth anniversary of the...
FOREIGN RELATIONS: Suspense on Quemoy
DULLES SCENTS BRINK VICTORY, proclaimed the Christian Science Monitor last week as the Secretary of State flew'back from a few days at his Duck Island retreat...
Red China: Fixing Frontiers
Red China produced a second surprise last week. At Peking airport. Premier Chou En-lai welcomed Outer Mongolia's Premier Yurnzhagiin Tsedenbal, 46, who is...
Red China: The Slow Creep Forward
From Manchuria to the upper Yangtse, Red China lay snowbound. In the drought-ridden northwest provinces, hundreds of thousands of peasants, students, and...
RED CHINA: Soap Opera
The leading lady author of Red China, 51-year-old Ting Ling, last week was hard at work on a new job: scrubbing floors at the Peking headquarters of the...
Photo Essays

Cartier-Bresson: ‘Red China’ in Color, 1958
In 1958, LIFE sent Henri Cartier-Bresson on a four-month, 7,000-mile tour through communist China during that country's convulsive "great leap forward." Here,...


