LGM3468560: Silk after having been washed is wound onto spools during the Chinese silk process at the Hangzhou Silk Company factory, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468662: Tractor driven hay cart in Nanjing, Jiangsu Province, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468678: Shanghai club, Shanghai, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468583: Washing furs in Harbin Fur Factory, Heilongjiang Province, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468710: Shanghai Container Port, Shanghai, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468620: Geese transported by bicycle on way to market over the Yangtze River Bridge, Nanjing, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468739: building work and canal boats on Shaoxing waterways, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468759: fisherman on bicycle, Shaoxing, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468798: nodding bullock on back shelf of car, Shenyang, China. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468675: Circus act with Panda bear, Shanghai Circus, Shanghai, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468819: Chinese - Czech factory, Shenyang, China. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468685: Chinese Army soldier posing for a photograph, China, (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468700: Shanghai Carpet Factory, Shanghai, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468859: Yinchuan Lanzhou Railway, Ningxia Hui Province, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468712: Shanghai Container Port, Shanghai, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468717: Guitar player in the Jimmy King Jazz Orchestra, Shanghai, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468738: building work and canal boats on Shaoxing waterways, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468750: Buiding labourer being weighed carrying rubble from building site, Shaoxing, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468756: Barbers shop in Shaoxing, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468770: woman barber shaving man in barber shop, Shaoxing, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468785: Shaoxing street scene with Shaoxing waterway, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468803: man crouching down next to wall with pop music poster, Shenyang, China. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468816: Chinese - Czech factory, Shenyang, China. (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468262: Taxis outside Beijing Hotel, Beijing, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468267: Japanese cars and washing machines advertising posters in Beijing, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468280: Family life in one of the many crowded Chengdu City alleyways, Southwest China, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468288: caged bird in Chegdu bird market, Sichuan Province, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468294: Flower market, Chengdu, Sichuan Province, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468312: molten glass in bottle making factory, Chengdu, Sichuan, Province China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468316: Statue of Chairman Mao in Chengdu city square, Sichuan, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468323: Chinese woman crossing vegetable growing fields in Sichuan countryside, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468329: Chinese woman trying out clothes in Chengdu market, Sichuan, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468338: Chinese youth prisoners in Chengdu Youth Detention Center dormitory, China, 1985 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468344: Prisoners in workshop making lamps in Chinese Youth Detention Center, Chengdu, China, 1985 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468350: recreation area in Chinese Youth Detention Center, Chengdu, China, 1985 (photo) / Bridgeman Images

LGM3468365: Oil well riggers, Daqing Oil Fields, Heilongjiang Province, China (photo) / Bridgeman Images