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Beijing University campus peddlers selling soda, cola and apples ready their wares.

Row of bicycles parked on a Beijing street. In the 1980s, most commuters still used old-model bicycles to get to work.

View looking eastward across Tiananmen Square to Tiananmen (The Gate of Heavenly Peace), with Mao portrait and signs reading "Long live the Communist Party of China" [left] and "Long Live The Great Unification of the People of the World"

Bicycle commuters stream past the entrance to a Beijing subway station during afternoon rush hour.

Street in northwest Beijing's Haidian district during autumn afternoon.

Day trippers climb the Western Hills (Xishan) northwest of Beijing.

Northwest Beijing as seen looking over Kunming lake at the Summer Palace - Qingyi Garden

Tiananmen Square, including the Mao Mausoleum and Monument to the People's Heroes, seen looking south across Chang An avenue.

Travelers and buses in front of the Beijing Railway Station (Beijing zhan) at dusk.

Built in 1958 on the eastern edge of tiananmen Square, the 69,000 sq. m. National Museum Building (Bowuguan daxia) houses both the Museum of Chinese History (Zhongguo lishi bowuguan) and the Museum of the Chinese Revolution (Zhongguo geming…