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00014749 : AFGHANISTAN - Boy jumping over a skipping rope.
00014748 : AFGHANISTAN - Girls in the village of Dar-e-Al walking towards their secondary school.
00014747 : AFGHANISTAN Bamiyan Province - Dari lesson at the girls’ primary school in the village of Kholu.
00014746 : AFGHANISTAN Samangan Province - Children playing for the camera in the village of Tajik Dehi.
00014745 : AFGHANISTAN Balkh Province - Teachers of the Bebe Hoyesha girls’ school.
00014744 : AFGHANISTAN Mazar-e-Sharif, Balkh province - Tank shells are used as seats on a merry-go-round.
00014743 : AFGHANISTAN Bamiyan Province - Boys’ primary school in the village of Kholu. Many reopened schools have no tables, chairs or blackboards.
00014742 : AFGHANISTAN Bamiyan Province - Pupils at the Bamiyan Central Boys’ School playing the ‘Red Rower’ game in the playground.
00014741 : AFGHANISTAN - Women carrying bundles of wheat during the harvest.
00014740 : AFGHANISTAN Bamiyan Province - A classroom in the girls’ primary school in Dookani.
00014739 : AFGHANISTAN - IDPs on their way home to their villages, after the end of the fighting. The trucks are old and often break down.
00014738 : AFGHANISTAN North - IDPs who had fled to Mazar-e-Sharif returning to their villages after the end of the fighting.
00014737 : AFGHANISTAN Bamiyan Province - Hazara women carrying buckets of water from a nearby brook, as their village has no water supply.
00014736 : AFGHANISTAN - Hazara girl in front of the ruined building which is home to her family.
00014735 : AFGHANISTAN - Empty tank shells are used to hold up the goalposts on a makeshift football field.
00014734 : AFGHANISTAN - Empty tank shells are used to hold up the goalposts on a makeshift football field.
00014733 : AFGHANISTAN Bamiyan Province - Primary school children in Dookani playing the ‘Red Rower’ game.
00014732 : AFGHANISTAN Bamiyan Province - Hazara girls tending crops. In the last two years grain production has dropped by more than 50% due to the war, three years of drought and extensive damage to irrigation systems.
00014731 : EGYPT Dahab - Camel rider in the Sinai desert at dusk.
00014730 : BOLIVIA Aiquile - Market stall selling cassettes and stereos.
00014729 : TUNISIA - Nomadic Bedouins travelling in a camel caravan in the Sahara desert.
00014727 : MALAWI Nr. Lilongwe - Unloading sacks of American corn at a rural school. Pupils receive a monthly distribution of 9kg of maize each to take home to their families. The aid is provided by the United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP).
00014726 : UGANDA Kampala - A worker sitting on sacks of food aid in the Ntinda stores. This is the central distribution point for the operations of the United Nations World Food Programme (UN WFP) in Uganda, which includes convoys to Goma and Kigali. The loading gangs are paid by the ton loaded. Each worker may load around 100 tons a day.
00014725 : ERITREA Asmara - Unloading sacks of American food aid at a warehouse.
00014724 : ERITREA South - Afar girls fetching water from one of the few water holes in the Daucalia desert, using cans which once contained American food aid.
00014723 : FIJI - Save the Children Fund (SCF) midwife teaching local midwives about the reflexes in a new born baby. Cerebral palsy is common in Fiji, often caused by women undergoing a long labour in remote mountain villages without medical help.
00014721 : SOUTH AFRICA Cape Town - American journalist and feminist leader Gloria Steinem joins local women on a Women’s Day march.
00014720 : RUSSIA Moscow - Bottles of Stolichnaya and Moskovskaya vodka.
00014718 : BURKINA FASO Ouagadougou - Live debate on football and wichcraft on Radio Vive le Paysan. Based at Sapone, 40km south of Ouaga, it gives a voice to the surrounding villages.
00014717 : CHAD - Community radio: interviewing subsistence farmers.
00014716 : LESOTHO South - Typical landscape and village.
00014715 : SOMALILAND Hargeisa - Woman working as a sound mixer for a local radio station.
00014714 : GHANA Nr. Nkawkaw - Pumping water in the village of Akwely.
00014713 : GHANA Accra - Journalism class at the University Of Accra.
00014712 : UGANDA Kampala - ‘Vision’ newspaper printing press.
00014711 : TANZANIA - Boxed product at a factory producing Rift Valley Springs bottled water.
00014710 : CHINA Shanghai - Prisoners being transported by truck.
00014709 : CHINA Shanghai - Prisoners being transported by truck.
00014708 : BENIN Cotonou - Woman selling bread in the market.
00014707 : LEBANON West Beirut - Women demonstrating in support of Hezbollah (Hizbollah).
00014706 : OMAN Muscat - Chemistry class in the only school in Oman where boys and girls are taught together.
00014705 : UGANDA - Transporting bananas by truck and bicycle.
00014704 : GUATEMALA City - Market stall in the central square.
00014703 : ISRAEL Jerusalem - Man on mobile phone.
00014702 : INDIA Bangalore - Advertising signs.
00014701 : INDIA Bangalore - Scooters passing advertising hoardings.
00014700 : INDIA - Girls with sparklers celebrating Diwali.
00014699 : TAIWAN Taipei - Surfers enjoying a meal in an internet cafe.
00014698 : MEXICO Toluca - Living in the shadow of industrial pollution.
00014697 : PERU Cajamarca - An Indian girl shopping for hats with her mother.
00014696 : COLOMBIA Mompox - Cyclist on colonial streets.
00014695 : SENEGAL - Fulani women and child.
00014694 : SYRIA - Children.
00014693 : UGANDA Karamoja - President Yoweri Museveni.
00014692 : INDIA Varanasi (Benares), Uttar Pradesh - A couple at their wedding ceremony on the ghats of the River Ganges.
00014691 : MALI - Winnowing millet.
00014690 : NIGERIA Lagos - A renowned Nigerian artist in his home, surrounded by paintings and other artworks.
00014689 : MALI Bamako - Modern 'griote' performing during an international theatre festival.
00014688 : RUSSIA Grozny, Chechnya - A Chechen woman shows the passports of her missing sons, during a gathering of women searching for arrested and missing male relatives. Their protest was timed to coincide with International Women's Day, a Soviet-era holiday to honour women of the USSR.
00014687 : RUSSIA Grozny, Chechnya - A Chechen woman shows the passports of her missing sons, during a gathering of women searching for arrested and missing male relatives. Their protest was timed to coincide with International Women's Day, a Soviet-era holiday to honour women of the USSR.
00014686 : RUSSIA Chechnya - A Chechen woman searching for missing relatives unzips bodybags holding unidentified remains found in a mass grave. In February 2001 Russia authorities disclosed the location of the grave in the grounds of their main army base at Khan Cala. The military authorities claimed that the bodies were those of kidnappers and bandits but international agencies were denied access to the site.
00014685 : SAO TOME AND PRINCIPE - Men hauling in a fishing boat. The recent discovery of huge oil reserves in the Gulf of Guinea is set to make the country one of the richest per capita in the world. In spite of this there are already fears that with the oil money may be accompanied by the twin curses of conflict and corruption.
00014684 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - Thys, a beggar, thanks God for what he calls the 'final solution': "AIDS will kill all the negroes.” Afrikaners.
00014683 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - Dinner in the Salvation Army centre. Afrikaners.
00014682 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - A disused railway station which has been converted into a homeless hostel. Black and white people live together here. They have to pay a small amount of money in exchange for a roof over their head and a very simple meal. Afrikaners.
00014681 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - Dinner in a disused railway station which has been converted into a homeless hostel. Black and white people live together here. They have to pay a small amount of money in exchange for a roof over their head and a very simple meal.
00014680 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - After more than a year of fruitless job-hunting, Lucy and Christel (19 and 21 years old) have finally given in to prostitution. The cost of a trick is 250 rand (about US $60), of which 150 are for the pimp. During the apartheid era, prostitution was prohibited except in the Bantustans, but, since 1994, it has been decriminalised and the profession is booming. Afrikaners.
00014679 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - After more than a year of fruitless job-hunting, Lucy and Christel (19 and 21 years old) have finally given in to prostitution. The cost of a trick is 250 rand (about US $60), of which 150 are for the pimp. During the apartheid era, prostitution was prohibited except in the Bantustans, but, since 1994, it has been decriminalised and the profession is booming. Afrikaners.
00014678 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - After more than a year of fruitless job-hunting, Lucy and Christel (19 and 21 years old) have finally given in to prostitution. The cost of a trick is 250 rand (about US $60), of which 150 are for the pimp. During the apartheid era, prostitution was prohibited except in the Bantustans, but, since 1994, it has been decriminalised and the profession is booming. Afrikaners.
00014677 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - Monthly distribution of 'kospakkies': food packets for Christians who have problems surviving on low incomes. Afrikaners.
00014676 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - Gideon, a former railway worker and estate agent, is now homeless. He is taking a bath in a canal. “This is the way I wash my clothes. From time to time I sleep here in the bushes on the other side of the canal. That is one of the few places where nobody disturbs me.” Afrikaners.
00014675 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - Gideon (right), a former railway worker and estate agent, is now homeless. He is trying to convince the photographer that black people are naturally lacking in intelligence because their heads are flat and therefore cannot contain anything. Afrikaners.
00014674 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - Gideon, former railway worker and estate agent, now begging outside a branch of McDonald’s. Afrikaners.
00014673 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - Three times a week, the Salvation Army distributes bread and soup in Pretoria's streets. More and more white people are joining the lines. Afrikaners.
00014672 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - Three times a week, the Salvation Army distributes bread and soup in Pretoria's streets. More and more white people are joining the lines.
00014671 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - A woman holds a sign up to passing drivers: “May I clean your car please? I have two kids. Your donation will be used to pay my rent. Thank you.” Afrikaners.
00014670 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - David has a swim in one of the small ponds in Church Square. He has been living here for six years, in the centre of the old downtown area of Pretoria where the city’s homeless people congregate. Afrikaners.
00014669 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - Widows who cannot survive on their meagre pensions boost their income by sewing clothes to sell at the flea market. Afrikaners.
00014668 : SOUTH AFRICA Pretoria - The last white people to remain in an all-black Pretoria housing block, Betty and Rina cannot afford to live anywhere else. Afrikaners.
00014667 : SOUTH AFRICA Nr. Pretoria - Alice and Hampie van Niekerk in their home in Nooitgedacht. They were once farmers with a prosperous future. After being robbed several times, they are now surviving by selling biscuits at the market. The piano remands them of better times. Alice hadn't played for years until this day. Afrikaners.
00014666 : SOUTH AFRICA Nr. Pretoria - Alice and Hampie van Niekerk on their plot in Nooitgedacht. Alice is holding their wedding photograph. They were once farmers with a prosperous future. Having being robbed several times, they now survive by selling biscuits at the market. Afrikaners.
00014665 : BOLIVIA Tinguipaya, Potosi - Ploughing a field as storm-clouds gather.
00014664 : EGYPT Cairo - Anti-Israeli propaganda posters.
00014663 : CUBA Vienales - Tobacco farm worker with straw hat and cigar cutting the top leaves, called ‘coronas’.
00014662 : CUBA Cerro, Havana - Worn signpost for the Abel Santamaria hospital.
00014661 : CUBA Vedado, Havana - Mother and son in school uniform with a painting of Che Guevara.
00014660 : CUBA Cerro, Havana - Close-up of worn car number plate.
00014659 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. Woman on her way to work at the state-owned enterprise Baotou Iron and Steel Works wearing an anti- pollution mask.
00014658 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. People waiting for work buses in front of monumental socialist statue with cooling towers of state-owned enterprise Baotou Iron and Steel Works rising behind.
00014657 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. State-owned enterprise Baotou Iron and Steel Works at dusk.
00014656 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. The heavily polluting chimneys of the state-owned enterprise Baotou Iron and Steel Works.
00014655 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. Pollution is pumped out of the massive state-owned enterprise Baotou Iron and Steel Works.
00014654 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. The polluting chimneys of the massive state-owned enterprise Baotou Iron and Steel Works.
00014653 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. Free enterprise. Couple selling fruit at side of the road to state-owned enterprise workers on their way home.
00014652 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. Worker in the massive state-owned Baotou Iron and Steel Works. 
00014651 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. Workers in the massive state-owned Baotou Iron and Steel Works.
00014650 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. People waiting for buses to take them to work, beside a monumental communist statue with cooling towers of State-owned enterprise Baotou Iron and Steel Works rising behind.
00014649 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. Workers in the massive state-owned Baotou Iron and Steel Works.
00014648 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. State housing blocks on the edge of city. 
00014647 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. Changing times - old statue of Chairman Mao, with advertising for pagers behind, showing Western businessman on the move. 
00014646 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. Mothers and their sons outside state housing blocks.
00014645 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. State housing blocks. Residents taking advantage of the autumn sun, playing cards and chatting.
00014644 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. Spices for sale.
00014643 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. Old barber on a street outside state housing block.
00014642 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Yellow River during drought showing the low water level and cracked mud in the river bed.
00014640 : CHINA Hebei Province - Shanhaiguan. Lao Long Tou - Old Dragon Head. Visitors at the end of the Great Wall as it enters the Bohai Sea.
00014639 : CHINA Beidaihe, Hebei Province - Young woman posing for a souvenir photo taken by a beach photographer, at this resort on the Bohai Gulf. Once almost exclusively reserved for party officials and foreign diplomats, it is now popular with the rising middle class.
00014638 : CHINA Hebei Province - Beidaihe. Relaxtion for new urban middle class (from Beijing & Tianjin) at resort favoured by the elite of Communist Party from Mao onwards. Women playing in the sea. 
00014637 : CHINA Hebei Province - Beidaihe. People processing shellfish on platform as fishermen bring in new catch from Bohai Sea.
00014636 : CHINA Hebei Province - Beidaihe. Fisherman walking in with catch at dawn after night fishing in the Bohai Sea.
00014635 : CHINA Hebei Province - Beidaihe. Portrait of a fisherwoman.
00014634 : CHINA Hebei Province - Beidaihe. Fisherman showing examples of their catch, shrimp and crab, at fish market on beach.
00014633 : CHINA Hebei Province - Beidaihe. Youth coming in from night fishing in the Bohai Sea.
00014632 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. Tsingtao Beer Festival. Drinker emptying his glass in the main beer hall. The city is a former German colony hence the strong beer drinking tradition.
00014631 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. Tsingtao Beer Festival. Drinker emptying his glass in the main beer hall. The city is a former German colony hence the strong beer drinking tradition.
00014629 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. Tsingtao Beer Festival. Drunken participants celebrating after winning drinking challenge. The city is a former German colony hence the strong beer drinking tradition.
00014628 : CHINA Qingdao, Liaoning Province - Drinking beer direct from pitchers in the main hall of the annual Tsingtao beer festival. The festival started in 1991, whilst the beer itself dates back to 1903 when the city was under German control.
00014627 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. Tsingtao Beer Festival. Drunken participants celebrating after winning drinking challenge. The city is a former German colony hence the strong beer drinking tradition.
00014626 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. Tsingtao Beer Festival. Drunken argument over darts. The city is a former German colony which explains the strong beer drinking tradition
00014625 : CHINA Shangdong Province - Qingdao. Participants at the Tsingtao Beer Festival drinking heavily. A group sits with a stack of beer pitchers that they have already finished. The city is a former German colony hence the strong beer drinking tradition.
00014624 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. Tsingtao Beer Festival. Drinkers in crowded main beer hall. The city is a former German colony hence the strong tradition of beer drinking.
00014623 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. Tsingtao Beer Festival. Drinkers showing off their chosen beer. The city is a former German colony.
00014622 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. Tsingtao Beer Festival. Bar displaying full range of Tsingtao beers in main beer hall. The city is a former German colony.
00014621 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dalian. Bride posing for wedding photos in a city park wearing a hired Western-style white wedding dress.
00014620 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dalian. Man using modern style China Telecom public phone booth.
00014619 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dalian. The city is one of the few economic success stories of the North East of China.
00014618 : CHINA Dalian, Liaoning Province - Downtown with new skyscrapers and McDonald's restaurant.
00014617 : CHINA LiaoningProvince - Docks in the port of Dalian. The city is the major port of North East China.
00014616 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dalian. Woman in dance group performing in tradtional costume downtown.
00014615 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dalian. Giant advertising showing Western fashion (and models) arriving, on exterior of downtown department store.
00014614 : CHINA Dalian, Liaoning Province - Men practising their golf swings on a driving range.
00014613 : CHINA Dalian, Liaoning Province - Old man scavenging from rubbish bin carrying McDonald's advertising.
00014612 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dalian. New economy, new jobs. Miserable young women taking a break from wearing costume to promote a department store.
00014611 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dalian. Bride and groom posing for wedding photos in a city park, with the bride wearing a hired Western-style white wedding dress.
00014610 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dandong. Border with North Korea. Chinese in a speedboat looking at North Korean fishermen on the Yalu River, which is the border between the two countries. 
00014609 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dandong. Border with North Korea. Chinese tourists on a boat on the Yalu River looking at North Korean town of Sinuiju.
00014608 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dandong. Border with North Korea. Chinese couple by the railway bridge that connects the two countries across the Yalu River.
00014607 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dandong. Border with North Korea. View of city with the Yalu River and railway bridge to North Korean town of Sinuiju visible behind.
00014606 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dandong. Border with North Korea. View of city with the Yalu River and railway bridge to North Korean town of Sinuiju visible behind.
00014605 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dandong. Chinese on boat on Yalu River going to look at North Korea on far riverbank.
00014604 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dandong. Man passing image of affluent Western lifestyle.
00014603 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dandong. Ailing industry. Labourers passing small factory in process of demolition.
00014602 : CHINA Liaoning Province - North Korean ferry in Sinuiju seen from Yalu River, which runs along the border with China.
00014601 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Looking towards Sinuiju, North Korea seen from the Yalu River, which runs along the border with China.
00014600 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dandong. Border with North Korea. Chinese police on the railway bridge connecting the two countries over the Yalu River, with North Korean fishermen in a small boat below.
00014599 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dandong. People with goods waiting to board the train to North Korea on the China/North Korea border.
00014598 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. The German-built Catholic Church. The city was formerly a German colony.
00014597 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. Grandmother waiting as her tubby grandson choses what he wants from McDonald's menu board.
00014596 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. City view with the German-built Protestant Church in foreground. The city was formerly a German colony.
00014595 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. City view with the German-built Protestant Church in foreground. The city was formerly a German colony.
00014594 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. Maintenance on train carriage at railway depot. 
00014593 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. Growing affluence, and expensive tastes. Turtles for sale in street market.
00014592 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. Weekend crowds on crowded beach. The city was formerly a German colony.
00014591 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. Tsingtao Beer Festival. Promo girls displaying German guest beer at the festival. Qingdao was formerly a German colony.
00014590 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. Old migrant labourer smoking self-made cigarette.
00014589 : CHINA Qingdao, Shandong Province - Saturday morning on a downtown beach facing onto the Yellow Sea. Old villas left over from when Qingdao was a German Concession are still visible in the distance, alongside modern skyscrapers.
00014588 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. Men relaxing on beach at the weekend.
00014587 : CHINA Shandong Province - Qingdao. Policeman walking along busy beach.
00014586 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Man serving up noodles for breakfast at food stall.
00014585 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang. Rich man sitting outside brothel (which pretends to be a Karaoke bar) in a dowtown entertainment district.
00014584 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Computer ad. using bizarre image of man on camel.
00014583 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Shenyang. People on rubbish dump on fringes of city in sub-zero winter dawn. 
00014582 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Steamed dumplings for sale at breakfast time.
00014581 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Sign for lingerie shop downtown.
00014580 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Tout outside mini-bus station ooking for passengers, carrying sign showing destination.
00014579 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Economic crisis. Laid-off state workers waiting for job offer on street, with signs advertising their sills (plumbing, demolition etc).
00014578 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Loading up buses with goods at long distance bus station.
00014577 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang. Grandfather tying up scarf over little girl's face to protect against dust and suspended particles.
00014576 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Shop signs downtown.
00014575 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Economic crisis. Laid-off state workers waiting for job offers on street, holding signs advertising their skills.
00014574 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Economic crisis. Laid-off state workers waiting for job offer on street, one carrying sign advertising his skills (heavy labour, demolition, etc).
00014573 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Economic crisis. Laid-off state workers advertising their skills (including knocking down walls and painting) waiting for job offer on street. 
00014572 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Economic crisis. Laid-off state workers holding signs advertising their skills (masonry, tile laying, heating systems etc).
00014571 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Economic crisis. Laid-off state worker advertising his skills on the street. 
00014570 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Street cleaner, wrapped up against winter cold, takes a break under 'Government' billboard. Although economic liberalisation has brought greater freedoms, the government still weighs heavily on the lives of most Chinese.
00014569 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Polluting chimneys of state-owned industry.
00014568 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Looking at the past. Man with a baby looks socialist monumnet topped by Chairman Mao in city centre, a remnant of the days when the now ailing city was an industrial powerhouse of the socialist state.
00014567 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang.Looking at the past. A man looks at the monumental socialist statue in city centre, a remnant of the days when the now ailing city was an industrial powerhouse of the socialist state.
00014566 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (formerly Manchuria), Shenyang. Chairman Mao statue in city centre greeting new construction.
00014565 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (Manchuria), Shenyang. Modern woman passing in front of monumental socialist statue in city centre, a remnant of the days when the now ailing city was an industrial powerhouse of the socialist state.
00014564 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (Manchuria), Shenyang. Polluting chimneys of State-owned industry.
00014563 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (Manchuria), Shenyang. Polluting chimneys of state-owned industry.
00014562 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Liaoning Province (Manchuria), Shenyang. Man performing Tai Chi exercises in early morning in front of monumental socialist statue in city centre. A remnant of the days when the now ailing city was an industrial powerhouse of the socialist state.
00014561 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dalian Development Zone. Migrant labourers on construction site.
00014560 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dalian Development Zone. Portrait of migrant labourer.
00014559 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dalian Development Zone. MIgrant labourers on a construction site queuing for lunch outside their dormitories.
00014558 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dalian Development Zone. MIgrant labourers on a construction site queuing for lunch outside their dormitories.
00014557 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dalian Development Zone. MIgrant labourers on a construction site queuing for lunch outside their dormitories.
00014556 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dalian Development Zone. New luxury housing for the new rich.
00014555 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dalian Development Zone. Poor migrant couple, with their bedding on the back of their bike passing new luxury villas.
00014554 : CHINA Liaoning Province - Dalian Development Zone. Rusting birth control propaganda billboard for ‘one child family’ policy.
00014553 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Tongchuan. Smoke pouring from this state-owned cement factory in a narrow valley surrounded by peasant housing.
00014552 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Huangling. Religion, nationalism and ancestor worship. People praying to Huangdi, the mythical Yellow Emperor, promoted by the government as founder of the Chinese nation, at his tomb.
00014551 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Huangling. Religion, nationalism and ancestor worship. People praying to Huangdi, the mythical Yellow Emperor, promoted by the government as founder of the Chinese nation, at temple below his tomb.
00014550 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Huangling. Religion, nationalism and ancestor worship. People praying to Huangdi, the mythical Yellow Emperor, promoted by the government as founder of the Chinese nation, at temple below his tomb.
00014549 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Huangling. Religion, nationalism and ancestor worship. People praying to Huangdi, the mythical Yellow Emperor, promoted by the government as founder of the Chinese nation.
00014548 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Mother pushes her child on a bicycle through the grim industrial landscape of Tongchuan. A town dominated by decaying state-owned industries. 
00014547 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Huangling. PLA (Peoples Liberation Army) soldiers keeping local peasants away from official celebrations at temple dedicated to Yellow Emperor Huangdi, nowadays promoted by the Chinese government as the founder of the Chinese nation.
00014546 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Huangling. Religion, nationalism and ancestor worship. People praying at the tomb of Huangdi, the mythical Yellow Emperor, promoted by the government as founder of the Chinese nation.
00014545 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Huangling. Religion, nationalism and communications. Man checking his mobile telephone while lighting incense at the tomb of Huangdi, the mythical Yellow Emperor, promoted by the government as founder of the Chinese nation.
00014544 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Huangling. Religion, nationalism and ancestor worship. Businessmen praying at the tomb Huangdi, the mythical Yellow Emperor, promoted by the government as founder of the Chinese nation.
00014543 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Huangling. Peasant boy in local marching band, at official celebrations.
00014542 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Young girl outside her cave home cut into hillside.
00014541 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Huangling. Boy eating noodles at a small town market stall. 
00014540 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Huangling. Typical small town market. 
00014539 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Huangling. Young women rehearsing for their role in official ceremonies at a temple dedicated to Huangdi the Yellow Emperor.
00014538 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Huangling. Market in this small market town in Shaanxi province.
00014537 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Huangling. Parents with their three sons eating at noodle stall in small town market. Such a large family is still rare in the country, and technically illegal under the government's intrusive one-child birth policy.
00014536 : CHINA Huangling, Shaanxi Province - Young women rehearsing for their superfluous role in official ceremonies at a temple dedicated to Huangdi the Yellow Emperor.
00014535 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Huangling. Young women rehearsing for their role in official ceremonies at temple dedicated to Huangdi the Yellow Emperor. 
00014534 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Xian. Advertising using giant baby image, hoping to exploit Chinese love of children, exaggerated by the government's intrusive one-child policy.
00014533 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Xian. Advertising using giant baby image, hoping to exploit Chinese love of children, exaggerated by the government's intrusive one-child policy.
00014532 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Xian. Police women drinking Pepsi.
00014531 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Xian. Youth selling newspapers on the street.
00014530 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Xian. Steamed dumpling restaurant.
00014529 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Xian. Rush hour cyclists wait by the city’s West Gate, which marked the departure of the ancient Silk Route. The man holding a red flag acts as a human traffic light. This function is performed by volunteers usually to prove their worth as good members of the Communist Party.
00014528 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Peasant man yawning while waiting for Chinese tourists to ride his camel, by the Yungang Buddhist caves.
00014527 : CHINA Hunyuan, Shanxi Province - Tractor driver in the Heng Shan mountains, going home after delivering a load of coal to a nearby town.
00014526 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Yungang Buddhist Caves. Tourists and touts in front of the giant Buddha, carved in 460 AD.
00014525 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi Province - Hui Muslim minority butchers' stall, slaughtering sheep by halal method, cutting the throat and then bleeding to death. The animal is then skinned (see left of picture).
00014524 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Mincing meat with choppers at market food stall in early morning.
00014523 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Sheep waiting to be slaughtered in downtown market. 
00014522 : CHINA Datong, Shanxi Province - A local photographer touting for business showing his book of tourists posing for souvenir photos at the Yungang Caves in front of a 14m high Buddha statue.
00014521 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Weighing potatoes at early morning street market.
00014520 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Yungang Buddhist Caves, dating from Northern Wei Dynasty (460 - 494 AD).
00014519 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Yungang Buddhist Caves, dating from Northern Wei Dynasty (460 - 494 AD).
00014518 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Businesman on scooter passing through old downtown quarter of the city, with hutong housing and the Drum Tower behind.
00014517 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Workers on a construction site.
00014516 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Chaotic electrical and telephone cables downtown.
00014515 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Downtown rush hour with street sellers.
00014514 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Domestic pollution. Sulphurous coal heavily polluting the environment. Old housing with decaying city walls rising behind.
00014513 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Persistent child beggar clinging onto a man's legs as he tries to board a bus.
00014512 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Policeman on downtown traffic duty.
00014511 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Urban poverty. Woman brushing her teeth above open sewer in poor quarter of city.
00014510 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Woman knitting on her bed in winter afternoon sun.
00014509 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Xian. Hui Minority girl running through Chinese-style rounded gate in an old city mosque.
00014508 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Xian. Hui Minority children in religious education class at mosque school.
00014507 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Xian. Old and young Hui minority muslim people at entry to prayer hall of the Great Mosque.
00014506 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Xian. Hui Minority muslim children learning to chant prayers in Arabic in class at mosque school.
00014505 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Xian. Hui Minority muslim children in religious education class in mosque school.
00014504 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Xian. Hui Minority muslim children in mosque school.
00014503 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Xian. Hui Minority muslim girls taking notes at end of religious education class in mosque school.
00014502 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Xian. Hui Minority muslim girls taking notes at end of Muslim education class in mosque school.
00014501 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Xian. Muslim Hui Minority people at Friday prayers in a mosque in the old city.
00014500 : CHINA Shaanxi Province - Xian. Muslim Hui Minority mosque noticeboard.
00014499 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Pollution and agriculture. Peasant woman and daughter in field of red sorghum close to large coal powered power station.
00014498 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Workers knocking down old factory buildings. The free market has lead to the decline of many old state-owned industries. 
00014497 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Agriculture and pollution. Peasant at work in fields next to a giant coal powered power station near Datong.
00014496 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Peasant child close to large coal powered power station near Datong.
00014495 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Peasant children at dusk by large power station.
00014494 : CHINA Inner Mongolia - Baotou. Pollution from the state-owned Boatou Iron and Steel works at dusk.
00014493 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Agriculture and industrial pollution near Datong. Peasants sifting red sorghum close to large coal-fired power station.
00014492 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Agriculture side by side with industrial pollution near Datong. Peasants threshing red sorghum close to giant coal powered power station.
00014491 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Environment degradation and poverty. Peasant woman scavenging for usable fuel on a state-owned coal mine slag heap that over-shadows her village.
00014490 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Poverty and pollution near Datong. Peasant scavenging for coal with his son on a state-owned coal mine slag heap. The giant Buddha figure at Yungang Buddhist caves is visible across the blighted valley.
00014489 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Environmental degradation and poverty near Datong. Peasant scavenging for usable coal on slag heap that towers over his village.
00014488 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Pollution and poverty near Datong. Peasant woman scavenging for usable fuel on a state-owned coal mine slag heap that over-shadows her village.
00014487 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Pollution and poverty near Datong. Peasants scavenging for usable fuel on coal mine slag heap that over-shadows their village in blighted landscape.
00014486 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Environmental degradation and poverty near Datong. Peasants scavenging for usable coal on slag heap that towers over their village.
00014485 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Environmental degradation and rural poverty. Peasants scavenging on state-owned coal mine slag heap that towers over their village.
00014484 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Peasant scavenging for coal from state-owned coal mine slag heap that dominates his village in a pollution ravaged lansdscape near Datong.
00014483 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Poverty and pollution. Peasant scavenging for suable fuel on a state owned coal mine coal slag heap that overshadows their village.
00014482 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Environment and poverty. Peasants scavenging for usable fuel on state-owned coal mine slag heap that over-shadows their village.
00014481 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Rural poverty. Youth tying up sack of coal scavenged from around coal mine. 
00014480 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Decaying state-owned coal mine, producing highly sulphurous, polluting coal.
00014479 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Shanxi. State-owned coal mine. Workers moving carts full of coal.
00014478 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Coal miner at state owned mine.
00014477 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Coal porter on cigarette break. Heavily sulhurous coal, highly polluting, is a major product of the region.
00014476 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. Environmental degradation. Home in a landscape devastated by coal mining.
00014475 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. State owned caol mine. Coal miner scavenging coal at pit head to take home.
00014474 : CHINA Shanxi Province - Datong. State-owned coal mine. Miner scavenging coal at coal mine to take home.
00014473 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Martial arts school close to the famous temple. Early morning warm up.
00014472 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Martial arts school training session in early morning, with the famous temple visible behind.
00014471 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Martial arts school close to the famous temple. Warming up for training session under character.
00014470 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Martial arts school close to the famous temple. Warming up for training session under character.
00014469 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Martial arts school close to the famous temple. Early morning training.
00014468 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. One of many youths intensively studying martial arts at one of the schools that have sprung up around the famous monastery.
00014467 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Youths intensively studying martial arts at one of the schools that have sprung up around the famous monastery, taking a mid morning break.
00014466 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Martial arts school close to the famous temple. Boy stretching during a training session, being pressured by teacher.
00014465 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Martial arts school close to the famous temple. Teacher surveying his students.
00014464 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Martial arts school close to the famous temple. 
00014463 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Boys suffering during training at martial arts school close to the famous temple.
00014462 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. One of many youths intensively studying martial arts at one of the schools that have sprung up around the famous monastery.
00014461 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Martial arts school close to the famous temple. Kick training session.
00014460 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Martial arts school close to the famous temple. Teacher 'accidentally' missing kick pad.
00014459 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Boy suffering during training at martial arts school close to the famous temple. 
00014458 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin martial arts school close to the famous temple.
00014457 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Martial arts school close to the famous temple. Warming up for training session.
00014456 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. One of many youths intensively studying martial arts at one of the schools that have sprung up around the famous monastery.
00014455 : CHINA Hebei Province - Desertification in Langtou Gou a village 130km from Beijing, which is being progressively covered by sand blowing down off the Gobi desert. Baby playing in the sand that is swallowing his village.
00014454 : CHINA Hebei Province - Desertification in Langou Gou a village 130km from Beijing, which is being progressively covered by sand blowing down off the Gobi desert. A local peasant woman surveys her agricultural land recently lost to the drifting sands.
00014453 : CHINA Hebei Province - Desertification in Langtou Gou a village 130km from Beijing. It is being progressively covered by sand blowing down off the Gobi desert. Here agricultural land has been swallowed by drifting sand.
00014452 : CHINA Hebei Province - Desertification in Langtou Gou a village 130km from Beijing. It is being progressively covered by sand blowing down off the Gobi desert. This semi abandoned house is in danger of collapse because of sand drift rising at its rear..
00014451 : CHINA Province - Langtou Gou. Peasant woman contemplating land lost to drifting sand. Her village is being progressively covered by sand blowing down off the Gobi desert. 
00014450 : CHINA Hebei Province - Peasant woman contemplating land lost to drifting sand. The village of Langtou Gou, where she lives, is being progressively covered by sand blowing down off the Gobi desert.
00014449 : CHINA Hebei Province - Portrait of a school boy in Langtou Gou, a village 130km from Beijing. The area is being progressively covered by sand blowing down off the Gobi desert. This boy’s village may no longer exist by the time he is an adult. 
00014448 : CHINA Hebei Province - Desertification. Langtou Gou, a village 130km from Beijing, is being progressively covered by sand blowing down off the Gobi desert, the fields behind the village have been completely destroyed. 
00014447 : CHINA Hebei Province - Desertification. Langtou Gou, a village 130km from Beijing, is being progressively covered by sand blowing down off the Gobi desert. Girl playing with sand that has drifted up and over roof of her home.
00014446 : CHINA Langtou Gou, Hebei Province - Girl playing on a sand dune that has almost covered her home in this village which is being progressively covered by sand blowing down from the Gobi Desert, and is only 130Km from Beijing.
00014445 : CHINA Langtou Gou, Hebei Province - Girl playing on a sand dune that has almost covered her home in this village which is being progressively covered by sand blowing down from the Gobi Desert, and is only 130Km from Beijing.
00014444 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Thin children playing on image of fat Buddha.
00014443 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Fat man on bicycle passing image of fat Buddha.
00014442 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Forest of Pagodas, each one a memorial to a Shaolin monk.
00014441 : CHINA Henan Province - Peasant taking her children to fields.
00014440 : CHINA Henan Province - Shaolin. Peasant pulling his cart loaded with greens to market. 
00014439 : CHINA Henan Province - Zhengzhou. Man reading a newspaper in cheap restaurant.
00014438 : CHINA Henan Province - Kaifeng. Old people playing cards.
00014437 : CHINA Henan Province - Favoured possessions - son and piglet sleeping in peasant's cart.
00014436 : CHINA Henan Province - Peasant carrying sugar cane.
00014435 : CHINA Henan Province - Peasant with loaded cart passing village home close to the Yellow River.
00014434 : CHINA Henan Province - Rural highway.
00014433 : CHINA Henan Province - Typical brick-built village.
00014432 : CHINA Henan Province - Peasants looking out over Yellow River plain.
00014431 : CHINA Henan Province - Luoyang. Longmen Buddhist Caves. Ancestor worshipping temple. Tang dynasty buddhist figure.
00014430 : CHINA Henan Province - Xihua. Image of Goddess Niwas, who according to some Chiense myths created the human race by fashioning people out of mud from the Yellow River - as depicted here in temple by her supposed tomb. With the return of old values and supersititions this temple has become a pilgrimage site for old women.
00014429 : CHINA Henan Province - Luoyang. Longmen Buddhist Caves. Ancestor Worshipping Temple. Girl posing with parasol with Buddha behind. 
00014428 : CHINA Henan Province - Luoyang. Longmen Buddhist Caves. Ancestor Worshipping Temple. Japanese tour group posing with Buddha behind.
00014427 : CHINA Henan Province - Xihua. Ancestor worship and superstition. Peasant praying to Goddess Niwas, who according to some Chinese myths created the human race by fashioning people from mud of the Yellow River.
00014426 : CHINA Henan Province - Xihua. Chairman Mao and other old gods in temple. Following tradition, damaged or replaced statues of gods are given to temple, where they continue to be worshipped. In some rural areas of China is still regarded as a god.
00014425 : CHINA Henan Province - Cadres view of peasants from official car. 
00014424 : CHINA Henan Province - Father and baby son pumping water from village well.
00014423 : CHINA Henan Province - Peasant women in rural village with their baby sons, looking the part as 'Little Emperors'.
00014422 : CHINA Henan Province - Peasant women in rural village with baby sons, looking the part as 'Little Emperors'.
00014421 : CHINA Henan Province - Peasant woman in rural village feeding her baby son, looking the part as a 'Little Emperor'.
00014420 : CHINA Henan Province - Old peasant woman sitting in front of her home in a rural village.
00014419 : CHINA Henan Province - Old peasant women.
00014418 : CHINA Henan Province - Old peasant smoking cigarette.
00014417 : CHINA Henan Province - Tired peasant woman resting at rural temple.
00014416 : ZAMBIA Kitwe - School for underprivileged children, many of whom are AIDS orphans.
00014415 : SRI LANKA Jaffna - Women and children.
00014414 : SYRIA Aleppo - Bread stall in the souk.
00014413 : CHINA Sichuan Province - Peasant couple transplanting rice shoots in paddy field in the Chengdu Basin.
00014412 : CHINA Sichuan Province - Poor peasant with water buffalo ploughing paddy field in the Chengdu Basin. Many peasants have migrated from this area in search of riches in the cities of the east of the country.
00014411 : CHINA Sichuan Province - Poor peasant with water buffalo ploughing paddy field in the Chengdu Basin. Many peasants have migrated from this area in search of riches in the cities of the east of the country.
00014410 : CHINA Sichuan Province - Poor peasant with water buffalo ploughing paddy field in the Chengdu Basin. Many peasants have migrated from this area in search of riches in the cities of the east of the country.
00014409 : CHINA Sichuan Province - Peasant woman going to tend her crops in the Chengdu Basin.
00014408 : CHINA Sichuan Province - Poor peasant with water buffalo ploughing paddy field in the Chengdu Basin. Many peasants have migrated from this area in search of riches in the cities of the east of the country.
00014407 : CHINA Sichuan Province - Peasant farmer in his field in the Chengdu Basin.
00014406 : CHINA Sichuan Province - Peasant with water buffalo crossing fields.
00014405 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Baoguang Si (Monastery of Divine Light) in Xindu. Women in modern dress lighting incense.
00014404 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Roadside stall.
00014403 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Family eating at food stall in a poor suburb of the city.
00014402 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Peasant mourners at a Buddhist funeral cremation ceremony at Baoguang Si (Monastery of Divine Light) in Xindu, watching the body burn.
00014401 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Peasant mourners praying at a Buddhist funeral cremation ceremony at Baoguang Si (Monastery of Divine Light), Xindu.
00014400 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Monks praying during a Buddhist funeral cremation ceremony at Baoguang Si (Monastery of Divine Light), Xindu.
00014399 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Baoguang Si (Monastery of Divine Light) in Xindu. A man attempts to walk towards and touch a Chinese character with his eyes closed for good fortune. Unfortunately he fails.
00014398 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Peasant at a Buddhist funeral cremation ceremony at Baoguang Si (Monastery of Divine Light) in Xindu, lighting incense at the altar.
00014397 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Cheap food stall in a market in a grim suburb of city.
00014396 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Peasants praying at a Buddhist funeral cremation ceremony at Baoguang Si (Monastery of Divine Light), Xindu.
00014395 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Monks praying during a Buddhist funeral cremation ceremony at Baoguang Si (Monastery of Divine Light), Xindu.
00014394 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Altar at a Buddhist funeral cremation ceremony at Baoguang Si (Monastery of Divine Light), Xindu.
00014393 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Peasant mourners at funeral altar, during a Buddhist cremation ceremony in Xindu.
00014392 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Portrait of old man on altar as his body is cremated, in a Buddhist funeral ceremony at Baoguang Si (Monastery of Divine Light), Xindu.
00014391 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Mother and her child living in a shack in a grim industrial zone of the city. The black and white TV is their most prized possession.
00014390 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Man drinking tea and reading the newspaper.
00014389 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Family group eating hot pot, a typical, spicy Sichuan dish.
00014388 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Poor man scavenging for rubbish to collect. His pick is magnetised to help him pick up small scraps of metal.
00014387 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Poor man pulling cart loaded with polystyrene that he has collected to sell for a small sum to a recycling business.
00014386 : CHINA Chengdu, Sichuan Province - Woman with baby on her ba