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Life in China: Photos

monju_bosatsu — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:24:03 -0800

Life In China: A Series of Photos Without Words, For The Mysterious Beauty and Contradictions of China. By EastSouthWestNorth, via Simon World, Asia by Blog.

By: homodigitalis

homodigitalis — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:58:34 -0800

Thanks for this link - and the small vacation to China ...

By: 327.ca

327.ca — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 08:59:13 -0800

This is really stunning. Thanks!

By: mss

mss — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:03:26 -0800

Having just returned from 3 weeks in China I saw many of these pictures. China is a country that is very alive. It has a feel that is now lacking in the US. One thing that I did not expect is the over done Christmas decorations in every store. I expected to see none. As I have been splitting time between the US, Mexico, and China the linked pictures captures China quite well and many could be Mexico.

By: caddis

caddis — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:06:01 -0800

Wow! Great photography here.

By: matteo

matteo — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 09:27:09 -0800

great, thanks monju. there's also the always excellent James Whitlow Delano. his China work is here

By: nixerman

nixerman — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:15:37 -0800

This rocketh.

By: linux

linux — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:30:22 -0800

I've been away from China for almost five years now, after spending 50% of my life there from 1996-2000, either in the cities or out in the villages (archaeology leaves you in some pretty interesting places). I went from using Lynx on an amber terminal to check my email in June 1996 to a browser in October 1996, to a full web cafe experience in 1998 and its subsequent fall to government limits in 1999, if that's any indication of the rapid change I experienced there. Beijing changed the most. I walked out of an old airport and six months later walked into a new one. These are all good. But there are a few things I regret though understand their passing, such as Beijing's classic alley system (hutong) and the dangerous but exciting taxicab ride in a miandi (breadbox). There are a few things that changed for the worse, however you look at it, such as the expulsion of the Uyghur and other minority populations and reduction to rubble of their neighborhoods to make way for shiny new malls and other Olympic-inspired feats of architecture and commerce. I don't know -- maybe I will go back. But probably not just yet.... Aw. Those pics got me all nostalgic.

By: RobertFrost

RobertFrost — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:40:26 -0800

Thank you monju. I just sent off application to study in Hokkaido and while China and Japan are remarkably different, these pictures get me very excited about leaving the west for a while. Thanks again monju.

By: yossarian1

yossarian1 — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 10:44:20 -0800

They've got Starsbuck over there too? Great! Nice post.

By: linux

linux — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:08:09 -0800

Hell, five years ago there were three Starbucks within walking distance in downtown Beijing, and the number of McDonalds went from 20-odd in '96 to over 50 in '99.,

By: xammerboy

xammerboy — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 11:13:00 -0800

Yeah but read the caption for the picture. That's NOT Starbucks!

By: yossarian1

yossarian1 — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:06:17 -0800

yup... that's what I meant... thanks for ruining my joke attempt.

By: jim-of-oz

jim-of-oz — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 12:43:57 -0800

Here's a couple more blogs with pictures about life in China. 21mm.net Ziboy (careful, it has some strange app that sometimes tries to download and install something in IE) but is still a cool collection of pictures.

By: evening

evening — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:00:34 -0800

can anyone explain all the flooding? (freak thing, common occurence, no drainage, doesn't last long, etc)

By: pmbuko

pmbuko — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 13:28:06 -0800

Nice photos! (re: the walmart pic in Part 3) Damn, the prices must be really low there, what with not having to ship everyhting internationally.

By: of strange foe

of strange foe — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 14:10:45 -0800

Yes, evening, flooding is common throughout the history of China. I was going to regurgitate parts of my high school geography lessons, but google came to the rescue. Great link, monju! Those pictures bring me back...

By: ciaracat

ciaracat — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 20:09:19 -0800

Great photos, I visit China each month and they inspire me to take some of my own.

By: madamjujujive

madamjujujive — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 21:34:41 -0800

excellent monju_bosatsu - I really enjoyed this - thanks!

By: quonsar

quonsar — Tue, 14 Dec 2004 22:43:15 -0800

i must have received this image a dozen times in email forwards with the caption "Iraqi Taxi".