1. Young Coal Worker 2. Train-side Food Vendors 3. Tilling Farmland 4. Peasants Moving Out From 3 Gorges Dam Area 5. Street Doctor 6. Street Barber 7. Selling Blood 8. Sifting Garbage 9. Crossing Bridge To Get To School 10. Delivering the Post 11. Digging for Clams 12. Blind Subway Musician 13. Abandoned Baby
These are very beautiful pictures that indeed gives us a little insight on the daily live of rural China. Love picture 9. the girl crossing the bridge to school and the heartbreaking one is picture 13 of the abandoned baby! I bet it's a babygirl...-ohmy
every place looks like it used to be a warzone.. its sad.. i guess this is what communism does to a civilization. capitalism may be unequal distribution of wealth, but communism is equal distribution of poverty.
How come no one think picture #1 is heartbreaking as well? So young yet so 'grown up'... A kid this age should be in school and not working as a coal miner -down
#1 is sad, but not quite heartbreaking to me looks like he's somewhat happy. No one wants to go near the abandoned baby.
Communism works, it works well early on after revolution, but needs to change when the country stablizes... or if it becomes a utopia where everyone actually works a fair share... China is not communist in terms of the economy... they've changed to a rather open capitalistic system over the last 10-15years... the simple fact that their economy is practically doubling every year within the last decade should prove that... there is no such thing as a pure communist country anymore, the closest country to a pure communist system is Cuba...
^ Agree. Kid in pic 1 was smiling, suggesting he's happy (or at least for that moment) but in pic 13 people where just standing around an no one seems to be interested picking the baby up to take it to a police station or so.-down
I disagree, communism will never work as long as people have a sense of individuality. There will always be the person who strives to have more then others, whether out of greed or necessity. This is why Communist countries have such massive propaganda machines that try to keep individuality down. Marx may have been a genius in terms of politics, but he wasn't a humanist.
Hehe I find his innocent smile somewhat heartbreaking. It's like he's so contented and cheerful to be doing what he's doing, not complaining; and yet some of us here are so disgruntled to even go to school at his age, u know what I mean? That pic just reminds me to be thankful for what i have n don't have to do.
i feel bad when i see #9...those kids are so determine to go to skool in order to get some education, they prolly have to walk several km before reaching it...
Wow... beautiful taken picz.... I feel so sad seeing those pictures... especially the first one... heartbreaking...
i feel for the peasants who had to move out of the 3 gorges dam area.... just for electricity for the cities, millions of peasants had to move to higher ground and leave everything they had known for their entire lives.
Yea I know what you mean, I see it a lot with first generation Asian Americans, their parents are working two-three jobs for their kids, meanwhile they are off screwing around.
i really don't think u can call North Korea anything more than a military dictatorship... :( as I said, communism will work right after a revolution, when people are very close to each other and willing to help each other... they fought a revolution together and will feel united, until the country stabalizes... OR in a utopia where people work their fair share... as in not be individualistic and think of others rather than themselves... I'm not saying its a very efficient nor great political system, I'm simply saying communism does work at very small intervals of time when a country is really together... the US was practically communist during WWII... high taxes, draft, government controlled economy, rationing of resources, and your propaganda machines...
