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These guinea pigs are being raised for food. They live in the dark; they eat rice, corn, and greens until fat; and then they are hauled off to…
Sunshine and lollypops are part of the photographer’s kit but reality sets in. It’s a grey day at Ren Kung Wu. Not many people are out, business is…
This woman is moving goods from one end of the street to the other. They are hoping for better sales.
While driving down a country road we turned the corner and ran into this gaggle of geese. The geese tender with her red flag shooed the geese away…
Gateway to the village. This is a memorial gate dedicated to their parents. It was financed by overseas Chinese.
This garment factory is set up in the south part of Taicheng near a market place. Garment factories run 24/7. It is piece work so when there is…
In addition to their vegetable crops, they plant their rice seedlings, the green flats.
While the rice is growing, these farmers are tending their crops. The crops are important because it is food for them as well as supplemental income. In the…
Fong decided to stop working for someone else and work for herself. She opened Bed and Bath boutique. She caters to the newly middle class and is doing…
Fong holds one of the many bedspreads she is selling. Taicheng is the shopping haven for almost all of Taishan. People come from the other parts of Taishan…
This fisherman is slapping the river with his pole. By slapping the water, he hopes to drive the fish into nets he had set up before hand.
This sign is in the Phoenix hotel. To work in the hotel it is mandatory you speak some English. Where is the fire?
This woman gives in a village that has no running water, Daily, she must fetch water from the reservoir for drinking, cooking, and bathing.
This fancy gate leads to a small village in the town. It contains the village office, Na Ma Xin Jai Chuan, and severals small businesses.
This my friend Faith. Like many people in China she drives a scooter. Scooters are the next step up from bicycles. Although they add to air pollution, they…
Farming is labor intensive. Tractors reduce manpower and are necessary to carry out farm work. Unfortunately, China still has a long ways to go in mechanising their farms.
Most people don’t have clothes dryers. Most of them don’t have washers either. They wash and dry where they can even in the streets.
In 1920’s (dated?), this pair of mansion was built by overseas Chinese as retirement home. Now, they are abandoned.
Setting the scene for the bandits to arrive, this Dil Lou keeps watch. Dil Lou’s were financed by Overseas Chinese. They were built to combat roving bands of…