Employees of the Shin Chiao Hotel in Beijing build in the hotel courtyard in October 1958 a small and rudimentary smelting steel furnace during the...
{"Image ImageDescription": "Employees of the Shin Chiao Hotel in Beijing build in the hotel courtyard (background) in October 1958 a small and rudimentary smelting steel furnace during the period of the \"Great Leap Forward\" (1958-1959), which was due to mobilize the Chinese population and to emphasize local authority and establish rural communes. (Photo by JACQUET-FRANCILLON / AFP)        (Photo credit should read JACQUET-FRANCILLON/AFP via Getty Images)"}