Henri Cartier-Bresson travelled to China for LIFE magazine twice, in 1948 and 1958, each time deftly capturing with a humanist eye the country at a time of political and economic change. The work, on offer here, is an early print from his second trip in 1958 during which he completed an extensive four-month, 7,000-mile tour of the country at the beginning of the communist campaign the 'Great Leap Forward'. Based on the USSR's Five-year Plans, this economic and social agenda included agricultural collectivisation and rapid industrialisation for its largely rural, agrarian population.