Impatient University Students
Photograph
Impatient University Students
China Seen from the Inside
Bent and Burdened
1958
Gelatin silver print, printed November 1961
Image: 6 5/16 × 9 5/16 in. (16.1 × 23.6 cm)
Paper: 8 × 10 in. (20.3 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0091
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label, verso BC: (China) 11/61 1) IMPATIENT UNIVERSITY STUDENTS in Peking plunged \ into a muddy swamp to make their own swimming pool instead \ of waiting for machinery which was not yet available. They \ dragged out box loads of mud over improvised wooden rails. \ Cartier-Bresson's guide was most embarrassed at having \ photographs taken of the students in such informal dress; \ he kept protesting that the machinery would arrive. Principal \ task of this 60-year-old university is the training of \ scientists and engineers in 13 departments and 32 labor- \ atories. \ Credit: Cartier-Bresson © 1961 MAGNUM Photos
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