Daily Life In China Photo Essay

[MA-Caver]

Just a nice series of images by various photographers showing day to day life in China. A part of the world that should be seen by more people IMO.

http://blogs.sacbee.com/photos/2010/06/daily-life-in-china.html#more

 

[Bob Hubbard]

Cool shots.

 

[David43515]

Nice! Thanks for posting these.

 

[Sukerkin]

Interesting shots giving insight into the lives of inner-city people of another land.

Goes to show how the veneer of 'technology' has only just started to make an impact on the city. Reminds me of an exagerated version of what happened in Japan at the turn of the 19th Century with the 'modern' and the 'traditional' cheek by jowl.

 

[Xue Sheng]

Nice shots, many from Beijing and although that is part of Beijing it may give westeners the wrong idea

If you want to see what is a major part of Daily life in Bejing it would be this

Goes to show how the veneer of 'technology' has only just started to make an impact on the city.

Technology is very much part of Beijing. I have co-workers that were absolutly amazed that my Mother-in-law, from Beijing, thought Albany (the capital of NYS) was small bucause they had a view of Cities in China being like what they see in movies and on TV. Not knowing Beijing has a population in excess of 22 million people

This is Beijing

There is a rather large gap in Beijing between rich and poor and little or no middle class. And the picture I posted of the low houses that use to make up much of Beijing that are now mostly slums are being torn down at a rather rapid rate and being replaced by sky scrapers and stores the size of a city block.

 

[Sukerkin]

Aye, I should have been a bit more specific in what I wrote.

I was just trying to indicate that the 'modern' city so often seen on the news was not the whole of the story i.e. that there were still areas that had the 'veneer' of electrickery and aluminium framed glass frontages in the setting of the traditional alley-ways with limited amenities.

Britain, even in London, was much the same and much more recently than many people think .

 

[Xue Sheng]

Aye, I should have been a bit more specific in what I wrote.

I was just trying to indicate that the 'modern' city so often seen on the news was not the whole of the story i.e. that there were still areas that had the 'veneer' of electrickery and aluminium framed glass frontages in the setting of the traditional alley-ways with limited amenities.

Britain, even in London, was much the same and much more recently than many people think .

No worries,

I have to admit, When I was in Beijing saw these houses (although I did not take that picture) based on what I had seen around me for a week or so... I couldn't believe I was looking at, it just seemed so surreal