Female welders in a shipyard - Chinese New Year's Painting in the 1950s
Since the 1950s, Chinese women have been fully liberated and encouraged to take on traditionally male jobs.
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Dad goes to work and we go to school - Chinese New Year's Painting in the 1950s
It's an idealistic portrayal of an ordinary factory worker's family life in China during the early 50s.
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A Chinese mountaineer jumping over a gap on Mount Everest - a photo taken in 1975.
Since the absence of the video evidence, for decades, the Chinese team’s climbing success in 1960 was not recognised by international organisations.
So in 1975 when China was still in the Cultural Revolution but in fact, an open reform aiming to achieve Four Modernisations had already orderly begun since 1974, a new China Mountaineering Team was formed which included female climbers.
https://www.viewofchina.com/the-climbers/#china#history
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Dad goes to work and we go to school - Chinese New Year's Painting in the 1950s
It's an idealistic portrayal of an ordinary factory worker's family life in China during the early 50s.
#china#painting
A Chinese mountaineer jumping over a gap on Mount Everest - a photo taken in 1975.
Since the absence of the video evidence, for decades, the Chinese team’s climbing success in 1960 was not recognised by international organisations.
So in 1975 when China was still in the Cultural Revolution but in fact, an open reform aiming to achieve Four Modernisations had already orderly begun since 1974, a new China Mountaineering Team was formed which included female climbers.
https://www.viewofchina.com/the-climbers/#china#history
