Photos from China in 2002

Traditional farming in Hunan province

Hauling "nightsoil" to the fields

Spring plowing with an ox

Hard and muddy work for man and ox

Terraces in springtime, new apartments behind

Terraces in mid summer

A sampling of rural life
The mass of people are little affected by economic development.

Walking the oxen near Dongting Lake

Farmhouses on an island near Xiangtan

Old woman in her front yard on the island

Farmhouse that sells chickens, with woven coops in foreground

In the floodplain - poor old houses and a new bridge

Construction, Chinese style
Most building is still done by hard labor

Farmhouse displaced for new highway, with new home behind

Typical construction on left, trash pile blocking road on right

Making new pavement, mixer in background

Workers hauling away dirt with shoulder poles & baskets

New library on campus, cranes are used for large buildings

Students and kids

A freshman English class in the "old teaching building"

Students in our apartment on a cold Saturday night

Wild party in the restaurant on Taalan's 13th birthday

Tariqa with lion guarding entrance to a new large building

Yue Wenjie proud to get the scarf of a Young Pioneer

Miscellaneous activities and summer holiday
Anne and kids visited Guanxi province and Guilin

Student Henry visiting birthplace of Chairman Mao	Colorful silks at cloth market in downtown Xiangtan	School kids ready for the spring kite-flying contest	Countryside in rural Guanxi province	"Famous waterfall" in Guanxi province
Reed-Flute Cave, one of many in Guilin area	The amazing wall, a mosaic in stone in Guilin park	Waterfront in tourist quarter of Guilin	Two towers along the waterfront in Guilin	Tourist area of Guilin, with bend in the bridge

Last look at our college campus
We left China on December 31. It snowed a few days before.

Main entrance to campus, with newly renovated "old teaching building"

Old student dormitories

Sports ground at primary/middle school, with concrete ping-pong tables

View in front of our apartment

The last morning, students and friends see us off

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