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New workers at china bicycle company shout workers anthem during morning morale training
The precipitous stone-and-brick Simatai section of the wall includes such whimsically named sections as the Fairy Tower and H...
Monks of all ages wait for mornng prayers and the only meal of the day.
Hundreds of boats create an immense traffic jam on the Grand Canal in Yangzhou.
Zheg's ships brought home at least one giraffe, a gift for the emperor.
Bright headpiece, worn correctly, crowns the senior monk of an order of Tibetan Buddhists known as the Yellow Hats.
Old ways survive on Lugu Lake, where the Mosuo people wear the same traditional dress as they did during Rock's day.
Today pigs have a run of the street in a subdued shopping district in Yongning, another Yunnan Town.
At the age of 66, Lonsang Yeshe, the High Lama of Yongning, is permitted by the communist government to wear his official rob...
Naxi traditional band. They perform nightly in town to enthusiastic crowds.
Naxi traditional band. They perform nightly in town to enthusiastic crowds.
Two boys posed with a hog gutted, boned, salted and sealed - preserving the pork for years.
Heirs to generosity, Li Jinyuan and his wife carry a chest containing carpentry and dental tools given by Rock to Li's father...
Mount Muztagh Ata Shan in Xinjiang, China
He Zouyi, 82, translates Naxi Pictographs, He and NGS explorer Joseph Rock produced Naxi/ English dictionary.
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Shenzen/Hong Kong Border
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The Swan Club; Health Club, Game Center, and Nightclub.
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Road accidents are a common sight on this stretch of the Silk Road.
Tajik girls from Akmiqit go to collect water.
Tiao zi, literally 'pulled strings' are made only by hand.
Even the Boiling of the cocoons is carried out using a long-established method.
Mogao oasis was 'rediscovered' in the early twentieth century.
Lake Shouxi in Yangzhou is a series of bridges, man-made islands and pavilions.
Fishermen with their haul on the West Lake in Hangzhou, where aquaculture has been practiced since the Middle Ages.
Practicing tai chi in a pavilion on the West Lake.
Sunset dissolves the blue of the lovely West Lake.
Tea Production in a factory in Yaan
Final phase of tea-leaf processing in the Yaan factory.
The shoes on the left, looking like those of a toddler, belong to an eighty-year-old-women, whose feet were bound when she wa...
In busy Xiahe, close to the Labrang monastery, youngsters in their finery prepare to celebrate Monlam, the Buddist New Year.
In a room of the monastery the monks prepare the paper that will be used for the Buddhist montra.
Monasticism is not just prayer: young monks intensively discuss the doctrine of the Enlightened One.
Monks quench their thirst with freshly fallen snow.
Outside the monastery, many food stands sell sunflower seed, soya beans and noodles.
With cords providing control, the tangkha is then unfurled along a sloping wall.
The market in Kashgar is not just buying and selling: the billiard tables are a center of attraction.
The Qilian Mountains have rich coal reserves, as first cited by Marco Polo.
Much of Suzhou's daily life revolves around the water.
One of Hangzhou's "12,000 bridges." This one spanning West Lake was noted by Marco Polo in his desription of the city.