Logo
Prev
Bookmark
Rotate
Print
Next
Contents
All Pages
Related Articles
Browse Issues
Help
Search
Home
'
National Geographic : 1964 Nov
Contents
Fording a stream between Sian and Yenan, the author's Polish-made car stalls midway, but mule and man pulled cart cross without trouble. Chinese themselves describe their economy as "backward" and their modernization as "herculean." Yet the land's vast potential beckons the Party bosses. As Mao Tse-tung, China's strongman and sometimes poet, has written: The earth is so charming, Like a red-faced girl clothed in white. Such is the charm of these rivers and mountains, Calling innumerable heroes to vie with each other in pursuing her. Reining His Electric Horse, a Farmer Threshes Wheat "Village pride," as Mr. Bisch called this contraption, is a motorized stone roller once pulled by bullocks. Mem bers of a Sian commune discovered that the motor was powerful enough to pull yet another roller (left) and thresh twice as fast. Rope in the har vester's left hand steers the machine; cable leads to a power line overhead. 614
Links
Archive
1964 Dec
1964 Oct
Navigation
Previous Page
Next Page