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The imperial tea gardens in Hangzhou still produce China's most precious teas. Zheng He helped spread the culture of tea arou...
A silk farmer spreads lime over worms feeding on mulberry leaves.
A woman boils silk cocoons to separate the threads.
Newly dyed cotton dries in the traditional way. Indigo dyeing was invinted by the Chinese in the Han dynasty.
Hot was is applied to cotton fabric in designs and patterns and then dipped in dye. Here a worker scrapes wax off the dyed co...
The famed blue and white porcelain from the ancient kilns at Jigdezhen is still produce by hand.
The famed blue and white porcelain from the ancient kilns at Jingdezhen is still produced by hand.
The porcelain glaze is applied by hand, the final step before firing in the kilns.
Herbal medicines have always been high on the list of Chinese trade goods. Zheng he brought 180 doctors and pharpacologists ...
Zheng He may have passed nets like these on his way to the South China Sea.
The last rays of the day are reflected in oyster beds off Xiamen.
Aquaculture in China, here in Maluan Bay, was described by Marco Polo in the 13th century.
Women do the dirty work of harvesting the oysters.
At sunrise on the China Sea, off Meizhou Island, fishermen bring their catches to market.
The catch is so paltry that chopsticks are used to pick out the edible fish.
Zheng he recruited thousands from this area long the coasts of Guangdong, Zhejiang and Fujan to build and sail the ships of t...
The descendents of Zheng He's crews on Hainan Island clean their catch, working in much the same way as their ancestors did 6...
The descendents of Zheng He's crews on Hainan Island clean their catch, working in much the same way as their ancestors did 6...
These are the last of the wooden junks on Hainan Island, as China banned the use of wood as a building material for fishing b...
China's largest fishing fleet sails from Hainan. Zheng He commanded a fleet of 300 ships of varying sizes, with the largest m...
Zhu Di moved his capital from Nanjing 600 miles north to Beijing, at a huge cost.
The Forbidden City
In springtime, fishermen line the bank of the moat that surrounds the Forbidden City.
A Beijing Opera actress powders up before applying her make-up.
The actors and actresses of the Opera are responsible for their own make-up, which can take hours to apply.
With Zheng He's many stops in India, this Chinese art form may have influenced the development of the equally elaborate Katha...
Zhu Di vastly expanded the empire's canal system in order to bring supplies from the south of China to the newly built capita...
Watertowns like Tongli and Xitang have changed little since the 15th century Ming Dynasty.
Watertowns like Tongli and Xitang have changed little since the 15th century Ming Dynasty.
The Grand Canal extends from here to the capital of Beijing- a distance of almost 1000 miles (1600 km), the longest man-made ...
Sunrise in Tongli brings everyone to the cal for washing and collection water.
The Grand Canal, shown here in Suzhou, sees as much traffic as in Zheng He's day, as China once again experiences a building ...
The section of the Great Wall in Jinshanling, built by Ming Emperor Zhu Di is the largest single construction project in the ...
Though monumental in scale, the Great Wall, here at sunset at Jinshanling, did little to stop the Mongols from treatening China.
The Ming Wall was longer, higher, wider and better fortified than any previous wall built before this dynasty.
View from Otakamori Matsushima Bay Tohoku Japan
Dawn in Qinghai reveals the Tibetan Plateau's dramatically beautiful skyline. Beyond these mountains of the towering Tibetan...
A wild donkey wanders across the desert lands of Qinghai on the Tibetan Plateau
Nomadic life in the Tibetan Plateau, Qinghai, China
Bai woman working in rice paddies, Xizhou. Yunnan, China
Smokestacks in Pianguan, China.
Rush hour in front of the steel factory in Baotou, China. The huge smokestacks of the factory loom in the distance.
Skiers at the ski resort in Huaibei, Huairou, Beijing Shi, China.
Pupils of the ceramics school in Dehua - where the best porcelain in China is produced - copy the bust of a Western boy.
Suzhou's numerous canals have earned the city the name of 'The Venice of the East'
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Incense and ritual 'lucky charm' banknotes are burned in the Taoist temple.