Paul T. K. Lin’s Hsinhua Photo Collection
This collection of photographs came from the Paul T.K. Lin Papers, donated by his wife, Mrs. Eileen Lin to HKUST Library.
Amongst the photos in his papers were these 443 unique photos, apparently taken by Hsinhua News Agency between 1970 and 1975. The images mainly show China and Chinese people as depicted by Hsinhua in the latter part of the Cultural Revolution, with captions provided by Hsinhua in Chinese and in English on the back.
The original arrangement had only series titles. To make the collection more usable, library staff assigned individual titles to each photograph. The collection is searchable by full text from the Hsinhua captions, the assigned titles, and tags created by humans and machine learning.
Using Chainman Mao's philosophic thinking to remake nature, the poor and lower-middle peasants in China have promoted the development of agricultural production. Photo: Commune members in Tungfeng County, Kirin Province, study Chairman Mao's philosophic thinking in the fields with comrades of the P.L.A. Mao Tsetung Thought propaganda team.
中國廣大量貧下中農用毛主席的哲學思想改天換地，促進了農業生產的發展。 這是吉林省東風縣臥牛三隊的社員與解放軍毛澤東思想宣傳隊的同志一起，在田頭學習毛主席哲學思想。
Hsinhua No.: 384574/0629 | Date: 1970-11-25