Photos from China in 2001

Spring
Spring Planting and Children

Plowing with a mechanical ox

Farmer hoeing a vegetable patch

Children playing at the schoolyard

Taalan with ping-pong friends at school

Tariqa and friends at neighboring college

Summer Scenes of Farm Life and Downtown Xiangtan

Growing BIG squash

Making coal briquettes for cooking stoves

A typical sidewalk

A proud shop owner

Hot peppers at a downtown market

Visiting Students in the Countryside
Visiting Jeffery in the town of Shaoyang
Visiting Ernest in a farming valley near Wugang

Jeffery and grandmother at her small shop	Neighborhood kids at Jeffery's aunt's house	Ernest and his isolated farming valley	Farm kids on aqueduct above Ernest's house	Ernest's family
Feeding the twins (Ernest's nieces)	Cutting rice during the summer harvest	Threshing rice	A cigarette break from shoulder-pole duty	Tariqa cooling off with an ox

Another Visit to the Countryside
Visiting Peter's fish farm on Dong Ting Lake, near Yuanjiang

Peter with family and "Dawg"	Peter and his dad on a fishing pond	A neighbor carrying a pole net	Anne and Peter with a very dry lake in background	Tim in a before- the-dunking pose
Tariqa and an old mud-brick and grass-roof house	Drying hot peppers behind the pearl farm	A concrete boat at the pearl farm	Fixing up fishing boats during the dry season	Boats stranded by low water

Miscellaneous scenes from autumn

Hard labor -- Carrying tourists up the mountain

Visit to a glass-blowing factory

Taalan's classroom

Tariqa visiting her friend Nathalie

Anne and a new-found friend

Downtown Xiangtan in autumn
Making a living on the street -- Good jobs are hard to find

Friendly shoe repair while you wait

Selling walnuts from woven baskets

Shoe-shine ladies with bamboo chairs

Motorcycle taxis for hire, bikes parked on sidewalk

Deep-fried treats basted with peppers, so tasty and spicy

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