Monday, January 14th 2008


Yang Xiu Yuan
Jinshanling Great Wall, Hebei Province

Yang Xiu Yuan, a local farmer and hawker on the great wall, poses on The Wall in front of her crops. This year, she says, has been very bad for growth, and nothing has grown high enough.

JunYi
Jinshanling Great Wall, Hebei Province

JunYi, originally from Mongolia, makes a living by selling postcards, t-shirts and books to tours hiking The Great Wall. By sticking with a group of people as they hike from Jinshaling to Simatai she is able to bargain for higher prices than most hawkers.

Dream Yang
Dalian, China

At eight years old Dream has only studied English for two years and speaks at a shockingly fluent level. She attends English Corners every Sunday evening, which are predominately adult free-talking sessions, to practice her English. Clearly ambitions, her dreams range from diplomat to American movie star, “I want to travel” she says. “I think British English is uncomfortable and unnormal”, as she explains her preference for American English, a sentiment reflected among many students in China.

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