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The balcony of a great Chinese gate tower on an autumn afternoon in 1949: massive red-painted timber columns and deep eave brackets overhead, red paper lanterns hung along the parapet, a vast stone-paved square below crowded with people and framed by low grey city walls, autumn haze softening the far end. the man stands at the parapet of the same balcony whose columns and eaves fill the top of the frame. the microphone stand is on that same balcony floor directly in front of him. the flagpole rises from the same square the crowd fills, both seen past the parapet edge. The balcony stands several storeys above the square, and the crowd below is dense enough that individual people are smaller than the parapet's stone joints. It is 1 October 1949, Beijing: plain dark high-collared four-pocket tunic and trousers; the crowd in padded cotton jackets, workers' caps, some in long gowns, soldiers in pale cotton uniforms and soft caps; vermilion-painted timber, glazed roof tiles, carved stone parapet, red paper and bamboo lanterns, cotton flag bunting; valve-era microphones on a floor stand, loudspeaker horns on poles in the square, film cameras on tripods at the balcony's end.", "style_description": {"aesthetics": "One man's back, and a square with three hundred thousand people in it. 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