new plateaus: chinese faces pt 1
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Here's a fun slideshow of the faces that make up central China.TRANSCRIPT
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Welcome to my slideshow of Chinese faces
These were people I met on the road as I traveled around
the country…
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My first trip away from my home base of Zhuhai was over to the
nearby island:
HONG KONG
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It’s near Zhuhai, but it’s another world.
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Filipino housemaids were off for Hong Kong’s Labor Day.
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And here’s the rest of the faces from this neck of the woods…
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A couple Jehovah’s Witnesses:
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Then this last spring, I visited the breathtaking views at
Yangshuo, Guangxi Province.
But it’s the people of this rural area that we’re concerned with
today:
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These women belong to one of China’s 56 ethnic minorities.
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These next ones are all of the Han majority, I believe:
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Our friendly tollbooth operator on our way home.
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Then this summer, I went on my big, central China trek:
• Started in Beijing
• Then south to Henan Province
• Further south to Hubei Province
• West to Xi’an before going back south to my home, Zhuhai
• It was a lightning bolt through the heart of China. Here’s who’s makes up the heartland:
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First, my fellow faces in transit:
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Beijing
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Henan Province:
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Hubei Province:
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Some gentle temple art
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One of the more intense martial arts teachers at my school
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Here he is upright.
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Xi’an
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As sometimes happens, she had no clue what her shirt meant:
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Thank you
• Or in Mandarin, it’s xie xie (it sounds like “sye΄ sye”)