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  • Serpentine Great Wall of China at Mutianyu. China.
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  • Vendors prepare to sell breakfast at a street corner in Shanghai, China.
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  • A vendor sells duck meat at a market stall in Sichuan Province, China.
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  • Chen Zhen, a law student in Shanghai China, eats at KFC on Nanjing East Road, Shanghai. (Chen Zhen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Neighbors of widowed farmer Lan Guihua make soymilk with a hand-powered stone mill at their home in Ganjiagou Village,  Sichuan Province, China. (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).
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  • The table is set for lunch at the home of widowed farmer Lan Guihua, who lives in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • The new Shanghai Circus World building in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The domed building seats more than 1,600 people.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, practices at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China.  (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lan Guihua (right), a widowed farmer, and her neighbor bleed a freshly killed chicken at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, practices balancing on one hand in the practice room at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A troupe tries out its cycling act at the Shanghai Circus World, Shanghai, China, where acrobat Xiaoli Cao practices. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Chicken feet and beef ribs are displayed at the Super Brand Mall in the district of Pudong, Shanghai, China.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio and Peter Menzel, authors of the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets with farmer Lan Guihua at her home outside Chengdu.
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  • Scorpions swarming at the Ru Yang Boda Scorpion Breeding Company, a new business in China's burgeoning market economy in Luo Yang, China. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. The Boda ranch's thirty employees are raising more than three million scorpions for public consumption in a football field-sized brick building. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A bowl of scorpion soup in Guangzhou, China made by Li Shuiqi, a 26 year-old scorpion seller, and his roommate, You Zhiming, 25. The pair of salesmen was raising more than 10,000 scorpions in their apartment to sell in markets in Guangzhou, China. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Fatigue takes its toll on dedicated extreme gamer, Xu Zhipeng (left), who plays online games day and night at Ming Wang Internet cafe in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  he caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 1600 kcals. He is 23 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall and 157 pounds.  He lives at his computer station, day and night, sleeping there when he's tired and showering once a week at a friend's apartment. His longest continuous game lasted three days and three nights. When he tires of gaming at the café he reads fantasy books. ?It's nice to rest your eyes on a book,? he says, even though he's reading it online. China has more than 300 million Internet users?a number close to the entire population of the United States. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • You Zhiming, a young scorpion salesman, allows a scorpion to climb up his arm as a woman and her son choose scorpions for dinner in Guangzhou, China's Qing Ping Market. Scorpions in China are used as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. They taste a bit like sautéed twigs. (Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects page 93)
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  • Fireworks celebrating the handover of Hong Kong to China by the British in 1997. Shanghai, China..
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  • Workers rest in the living quarters of a construction company in the fast-growing Pudong area of Shanghai, China. (From the coverage of welder Huang Neng in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Living quarters and food services are on site, and at least 10 workers share one room. In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
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  • Workers enjoy a meal in the cafeteria of a construction company building the Zhrong Rong Jasper Tower in Pudong, Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
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  • Ming Wang Internet cafe in Shanghai, China, where extreme gamer Xu Zhipeng rents a chair for six months and continuously plays games. His longest continuous game lasted three days and nights. China has more than 300 million Internet users; a number close to the entire population of the United States. (Xu Zhipeng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).
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  • Ming Wang Internet cafe in Shanghai, China, where extreme gamer Xu Zhipeng rents a chair for six months at a time and continuously plays games. His longest continuous game lasted three days and nights. China has more than 300 million Internet users; a number close to the entire population of the United States. (Xu Zhipeng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).
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  • Welder Huang Neng (top left) and his fellow workers rest in the living quarters of a construction company in the fast-growing Pudong area of Shanghai, China. (Huang Neng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).  Living quarters and food services are on site, and at least 10 workers share one room. In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
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  • Xu Zhipeng, a freelance computer graphics artist and Internet gamer, with his typical day's worth of food in his rented chair at the Ming Wang Internet Café in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 1600 kcals. He is 23 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches and 157 pounds.  He lives at his computer station, day and night, sleeping there when he's tired and showering once a week at a friend's apartment. His longest continuous game lasted three days and nights. When he tires of gaming at the café he reads fantasy books. ?It's nice to rest your eyes on a book,? he says, even though he's reading it online. China has more than 300 million Internet users?a number close to the entire population of the United States.
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  • The Li River in Yangshuo, China. In the background are karst mountains, which are famous landscape features of this part of China near Guillin in Guangxi Porovice. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • A scorpion ranch in Luoyang, China. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. Man Eating Bugs page 93.
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  • A woman and her son choose scorpions for dinner in a market in Guangzhou, China's. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. They taste like sautéed twigs. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • Ming Wang Internet cafe in Shanghai, China, where extreme gamer Xu Zhipeng rents a chair for six months at a time and continuously plays games. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) His longest continuous game lasted three days and nights. China has more than 300 million Internet users?a number close to the entire population of the United States.
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  • Workers buy food from a company cafeteria at a construction site in Shanghai, China. In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
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  • A scorpion ranch in Luoyang, China. The scorpions are fed mealworms and watermelon. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. Man Eating Bugs page 93.
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  • Hou Songfeng in the concrete mausoleum-like breeding room of his scorpion-raising facility: Ru Yang Boda Scorpion Breeding Company,  a new addition to China's burgeoning market economy. The Boda ranch's thirty employees are raising more than three million scorpions for public consumption in a football field-sized brick building; Songfeng would like to expand his market into the United States, Luoyang,  China. (page 94, 95) .
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  • Preparation for lunch at the home of Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Tao Xiuzeng, a worker at the Silk Factory #1 in the city of Suzhou, describes her favorite recipe for silkworms as she pulls the silkworm cocoons from boiling water, threads the fine  silk filament onto a reel, and then tosses away the rest of the pupae when the 1000 yards or more of silk is wound off each one. Occasionally she brings silk worm pupae home to eat, first drying them in the oven, then stir-frying them with ginger, onion, rice wine, and garlic, Suzhou, China. Her daughter is afraid of them, she says. (Man Eating Bugs page 90 Bottom)
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  • Ant wine, pictured on the famed Great Wall of China, among a kilo of black ants, is actually ant-steeped rice brandy, and is lauded by Chinese traditional medicine doctors for its medicinal treatment of hepatitis-B and rheumatism.(Man Eating Bugs page 104 Bottom)
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  • Waitresses at the Roasted Goose restaurant outside Kunming present one of the establishment's specialties, an ant and chicken egg casserole, Kunming, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 104 Top)
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  • Dried cicadas are one of many foodstuffs that may be purchased in the night food market in the village of Menghan, along with pig brain, pig feet, chicken feet, dried frogs, and fish heads. Jinhong, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 100 Bottom)
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  • As a preadolescent Buddhist monk walks through a market with two other young monk friends in the southern province of Yunnan; he proudly displays his fake pager; a coveted toy from "Motorora; Ching Menghan Sunday Market; Yunnan; China. (Man Eating Bugs page 84; 85)
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  • Li Shuiqi, a 26 year-old scorpion seller, and his roommate, You Zhiming, 25, eat scorpion soup. The pair of salesmen keep more than 10,000 scorpions in their apartment to raise and sell (for food and medicine) in the Qing Ping Market, Guangzhou, China. They are woody tasting. (Man Eating Bugs page 92)
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, practices balancing on one hand in the practice room at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals. She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • One of the chefs of the "Elegant Good Smell Restaurant" prepares scorpion soup and stir-fried scorpions in woks, Louyang, China.(Man Eating Bugs page 98)
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  • The Sunday market in the village of Menghan in the southwestern province of Jinhong, near Burma, Jinhong, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 102,103)
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  • Live silkworm pupae are sold in the Qing Ping market; the pupae are often stir-fried along with ginger, onion, rice wine, and garlic, Guangzhou, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 90 Top)
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  • A traditional medicine doctor surrounded by his patients in the Fu Lin Tang Pharmacy. The doctor, and all those in the line, listen to a series of health ailments, after which the doctor then prescribes a specific prescriptions of herbs and insects, among other natural ingredients. Kunming, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 105 Top)
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  • A small pot of Caterpillar Fungus Soup with Black Chicken, prepared by the Wine Forest restaurant costs 50 yuan, or $6.25 U.S.; the relatively high cost, especially considering that the soup contains only three or four of the fungi, originated from its medicinal value for the treatment of asthma, colds, jaundice, and tuberculosis. Guangzhou, China. The bamboo sticks are marked with the names of dishes available at the restaurant and act as a rustic menu. (Man Eating Bugs page 100,101)
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  • A baby scorpion on a fingertip; Kunming, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 96 Best)
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  • Wang Lingyun, manager of the Yue Xiu seafood restaurant in Luoyang, with a plate of her specialty scorpions. On the bar behind are large jars containing potent rice wine with deer penises, snakes, and herbs. Luoyang, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 99 Top)
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  • In Kunming, the capital city of the southern province of Yunnan, Fan Yuelian displays her family's home business, the raising of various insects such as live scorpions to be sold in the city's Bird and Flower Market, Kunming, China. The scorpions are raised in bins in her son's room, next to his bed. (Man Eating Bugs page 96 Top)
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  • A sample of caterpillar castings tea, called chongcha. The tiny hard pellets of caterpillar excrement are steeped in hot water to produce a tea of sorts which is reputed to possess certain medicinal properties, Kunming, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 105, 101)
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  • Squirming flesh-colored marine worms for sale in a plastic tub in the Qing Ping Market. They are sold (not as bait) but as food, along with plump pink silkworm pupae and shiny black hard-shelled water beetles.   Guangzhou Province, China. (Man Eating Bugs page 86,87)
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  • A farmer cultivates his fields near Jinghong in Xishaungbanna, China.
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  • A worker naps on his bike at the wholesale market in Luo Yang, China.
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  • Chen Zhen and her family share a meal of greens with garlic, potatoes with green bell pepper, rice, and fava beans with pig's knuckles at their home in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Widowed farmer Lan Guihua enjoys lunch at a small restaurant in a market town near Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, prepares a chicken for her guests and neighbors at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • Motorcyclists wait as pedestrians cross a busy street in Shanghai, China.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, balances on one hand with her day's worth of food at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds. Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Family members helping with photo shoot in Shanghai enjoy a meal at a restaurant on the top floor of Super Brand Mall in fast growing business district of Pudong, Shanghai, China.
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  • Squat toilet in a private home in Menghan, Xishuangbanna, China.
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  • Monks' squat toilet at the Golden Temple outside Jinghong, Xishuangbanna, China.
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  • The Tiger Balm gardens developed by wealthy businessman Aw Boon Haw. Hong Kong, China.
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  • Women plant rice fields near Menghan, Xishaungbanna, China.
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  • A farmer in her field with her water buffalo in Yangshuo, China.
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  • A woman balancing buckets on her shoulders walks near Xingping town near Guilin, China on the Li River. Karst formations in background.
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  • A villager walks past a large hog in a rural village in Xishaungbanna, China.
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  • A cook dishes up steaming noodles in a streetside shop in Kunming, China.
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  • Guangzhou, China. Xing Ping Market on a rainy day. (Xing Ping Market is now closed)
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  • Menghan Sunday market. A "Barefoot" Doctor using herbal healing in Xishaungbanna, China.
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  • Herbs used by folk medicine doctor. Menghan Sunday market in Xishaungbanna, China.
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  • Silk factory loom and weaver. Suzhou, China.
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  • Peking Opera. Beijing, China.
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  • Woman smokes a pipe at the Menghan Sunday market, Xishaungbanna, China.
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  • Faith D'Aluisio with umbrella on Walkway at Summer Palace, Beijing, China.
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  • The TV radio tower and new construction in Pudong seen from the Bund on the Shanghai side of the river. Shanghai, China.
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  • Children pose with Ronald MdDonald outside a McDonald's restaurant in the Pudong area of Shanghai. Shanghai, China.
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  • New highway construction. Shanghai, China.
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  • Old neighborhood and new encroaching construction. Shanghai, China.
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  • Waglong Restaurant in Pudong, Shanghai, China, where freelance computer graphics artist and internet gamer Xu Zhipeng occasionally orders his meals. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Twice a day Xu Zhipeng tears himself away from an online game for less than a minute to order a meal. The food is delivered to his computer station 10 minutes later, where he eats it without interrupting his game.
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  • Shoppers on a busy street in the Chunxi shopping area of the city of Chengdu, Sichuan Proovince, China.
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  • Giant pandas eat and lounge at the Giant Panda Research and Breeding Center, in Chengdu, China.  The giant panda is a highly endangered species, with a roaming population of only 1590. The captive population was 189 in 2005, according to the Third Giant Panda Survey (2004).
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, oversees the cooking of lunch for guests and neighbors at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu.
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  • Widowed farmer Lan Guihua 's neighbors prepare lunch for foreign guests at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • A dog looks on impatiently as men slaughter a chicken for visitors at the home of Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer living in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lan Guihua's son, his dog, and a woman from the city of Chengdu ride a motorcycle he bought with proceeds from farming in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Chen Zhen, 20, law student in Shanghai China at home on the weekend with her father, grandmother and grandfather at dinner.  She eats at KFC 3 times a week during the school week. (Chen Zhen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).
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  • Chen Zhen (right) a law student with her friend on Nanjing East Road in Shanghai China. (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in June was 2600 kcals. She is 20 years of age; 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 106 pounds.  Chen Zhen eats at KFC 3 times a week and what she eats depends on the coupons that she and her friends gather to defray the cost of the meal. The rest of her meals in the course of a week are largely Chinese and traditional. She eats simple fare at her university campus cafeteria--soups with rice and vegetables. Her grandparents and father go without meat throughout the week so they can serve it to her on the weekends when she's home from school. MODEL RELEASED
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  • Performers at the Peking Opera in downtown Shanghai, China.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, practices balancing on one hand at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, prepares to practice balancing on one hand at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China.  (Cao Xiaoli is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, trains with an instructor in Shanghai, China. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, enjoys her lunch at Circusworld Acrobat Center's cafeteria in Shanghai, China. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, enjoys lunch at the Circusworld Acrobat Center's cafeteria in Shanghai, China. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, practices balancing on one hand in the practice room at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China.  (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous.
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  • Huang Neng, a welder from Henan Province sits in Pudong's Lujiazui Central Green Park in Shanghai, China. (Huang Neng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 4300 kcals. He is 36 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 136 pounds. The migrant welder has worked on a dozen trophy skyscrapers on the Huangpu River in Pudong New Area, across the river from old Shanghai. His current project is the Zhongrong Jasper Tower, which will top out at 48 floors, a short-statured building compared to its neighbors. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Huang Neng, a welder from Henan Province stands outside one of the workers' quarters near a construction site in the Pudong area of Shanghai, China. (He is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 4300 kcals. He is 36 years old; 5 feet, 6 inches tall and 136 pounds. The migrant welder has worked on a dozen trophy skyscrapers on the Huangpu River in Pudong New Area, across the river from old Shanghai. His current project is the Zhongrong Jasper Tower, which will top out at 48 floors, a short-statured building compared to its neighbors. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, in front of her home with her typical day's worth of food in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Construction welder Huang Neng, with his typical day's worth of food in Pudong's Lujiazui Central Green Park in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 4300 kcals. He is 36 years of  age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall and 136 pounds. The migrant welder has worked on a dozen trophy skyscrapers on the Huangpu River in Pudong New Area, across the river from old Shanghai. His current project is the Zhongrong Jasper Tower, at far right, which will top out at 48 floors?a short-statured building compared to its neighbors. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Stir-fried black water beetles prepared for a restaurant meal in Guangzhou, China (cold beer in background). Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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  • The Summer Palace in Beijing, China. Situated the western outskirts of Haidian District, the Summer Palace is 15 kilometers (9.3 miles) from central Beijing and contains archetypal Chinese gardens and buildings. The Palace is considered by some one of the most noted classical gardens of the world.
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  • A "barefoot doctor's" (traditional healer's) display of herbs and roots in the Sunday market in Menghan village, Xishaungbanna, China. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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