despair # 1

despair # 1, originally uploaded by china.sixty4.

A street vendor sits in the shadows with her baskets of "cherries", in the Laishan district
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sweeper

sweeper, originally uploaded by china.sixty4.

An old man sweeps a narrow "nong tang" in a Hutong area (traditional Chinese alley dwelling) in the Laishan district
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