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The Would Be Photographer Saves His Roll

Date: 2008-03-12 ; Tags: Photos

The idea is to capture not an image, but a feeling within the image.? Not a detail, but a culture within the detail.? And in Tiennanmen Square, the feeling and the culture of the place were going to be bound in a single object: a kite.

Tiennanmen Square, beyond its infamy as a place of political protest, is a beloved haunt of kite enthusiasts in Beijing.? Where else can you find such

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Pickpocket

Date: 2008-03-12 ; Tags: China Pickpocket

The bus was crowded, a lurching, lumbering microcosm of China itself.

Actually, I should clarify: the bottom half of the bus was crowded.  The top part, where my neck was craning to keep my head from hitting the roof, was all mine.  And from this vantage point overtop the sea of black hair stretching to the back, I could see all.  Women taking children to school, other wo

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Hutongs and Highrises

Date: 2008-03-12 ; Tags: Hutongs Beijing Hutongs

Is it called the Forbidden City because it is a threshold between the rich on the eastern side and the poor on the western?  It certainly seemed so.

When I walked out of the hair salon I was dismayed.  There have been times, leftover birthday cake before me, when I have cut a sliver off the edge to even the line, and again to even that one, and so on, until only a sliver remai

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