Photographs of people who are associated with the establishment or government of the People's Republic of China.

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Image 01

Chen Duxiu, first chairman, first general secretary and co- founder of the Chinese Communist Party (l) with Hu Shih (r).

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Image 02

"Taken in the First Nanjing Prison in the spring of the 26th year of the Republic",
Chen Duxiu's own caption to this photograph, taken in 1937.

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Image 03

Hu Shih.

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Image 04

Yang Shangkun.

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Image 05

Li Dazhou.

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Image 06

Wang Ming.

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Image 07

Wang Ming.

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Image 08

Wang Ming (r) with Qin Bangxian (Bo Gu) (l).

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Image 09

Wang Ming, with other senior CCP leaders in Wuhan
(from left to right) Wu Yuzhang, Wang Ming, Zhou Enlai, Luo Binhui.

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Image 10

Zhang Guotao (l), with Mao Zedong (r).

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Zhang Guotao.

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Image 12

Xiang Zhongfa.

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Image 13

Liu Shaoqi.

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Image 14

Zhang Wentian.

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Image 15

Zhang Wentian (r) with Mao Zedong (l).

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Image 16

Lin Biao.

Addressing the crowd of students gathered in Tiananmen Square, 1989.

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Image 17

Zhao Ziyang.

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China, addressing the crowd of students gathered in Tiananmen Square, 1989; with Premier Wen Jiabao (forward facing in background).

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Image 18

Zhu De.

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Image 19

Yao Wenyuan.

One of the Gang of Four, at trial, 1981.

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Image 20

Jiang Qing, wife of Mao Zedong.

One of the Gang of Four, at trial, 1981.

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Image 21

Zhang Chunqiao.

One of the Gang of Four, at trial, 1981.

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Image 22

Wang Hongwen.

One of the Gang of Four, at trial, 1981.

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Image 23

Mao Zedong on the cover of Time magazine.

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Image 24

Mao Zedong (r), with Karl Marx (l) and V. Lenin (m).

This was a propaganda image during the Cultural Revolution to further cement Mao's place in the Communist philosophy.

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Image 25

Mao Zedong (l), with US President Richard Nixon (r), 1972 during Nixon's visit to Peking, China.

Photograph by White House photographer Oliver Atkins.

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Image 26

Mao Zedong (r), with Henry Kissinger (l) and Zhou Enlai (m), 1972 during Nixon's visit to China.

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Zhou Enlai (r), with US President Richard M. Nixon (l), 1972 during Nixon's visit to China.

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Image 28

Zhou Enlai.

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Image 29

Deng Xiaoping.

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Image 30

Deng Xiaoping (2nd from l), meeting with Zbigniew Brzezinski (r), national security advisor to President Carter, 1979.

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Image 31

Deng Xiaoping.

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Image 32

Jiang Zemin.

Speaking at the 16th Party Congress.

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Image 33

Jiang Zemin (l), with US President Bill Clinton, during a press conference in Beijing, 1996.

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Image 34

Tung Chee Hwa.

Taking oath of office as Chief Executive of Hong Kong, shortly after the British handover, 1997.

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Image 35

Tung Chee Hwa.

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Image 36

Jiang Zemin and his wife, Wang Yeping with US President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura Bush at the President's Crawford, Texas home, October 25, 2005.

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Image 37

Jiang Zemin (l) with Hu Jintao (r).

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Hu Jintao (l), with Zheng Qinghong (r).

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Hu Jintao.

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Hu Jintao.

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Image 41

Hu Jintao (background, center) with Hu Yaobang (foreground, left).

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Hu Jintao (r) meeting with North Korean President, Kim Jong Il (l), April, 2004.

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Image 43

Wen Jiabao.

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