orange woman "close up"

Yantai - Central - A woman arranges her "oranges" at a stall in a small backstreet in the centre of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

orange woman - square # 35

Yantai - Central - A woman arranges her "oranges" at a stall in a small backstreet in the centre of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

covered

Yantai - Central - A migrant vendor covers her face, as she sits outside FFC in the centre of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

sisters fruit and vegetables - square # 31

Yantai - East - A woman stands behind the counter of her small 'shop', in a narrow 'nong tang' (alley) , the sign reads "sisters fruit and vegetables" - night photo: mhobbs

migrant

Yantai - Central - Sitting outside a fast food restaurant in the centre of the city, a Muslim migrant worker selling fruit from baskets, covers her face with her hands - afraid that I (the photographer) will discover that she is not registered as a legal citizen of Shandong province. (This I assume is from habit)

In China all people (Men, women and children over thirteen) must carry "id"; cards, these are used to identify your residential status, your ethnic origins as well as which "work-unit", you belong. A work unit is for example - if you work for a factory you belong to that factories work-unit.

China currently is experiencing the largest movement (migration) of people the world has ever witnessed, this is causing great dissorder in many of the eastern (more developed) cities, due to the poor conditions and the lack of employement opportunities for "unskilled" labor.

Yet many from China's north and west continue to migrate south and east in search of a better life for themselves and their children, some legally but most illegally.

photo: mhobbs

vegetable vendor - square # 22

Yantai - Central - A man serves a customer from his 'biketruck' vegetable stall in a courtyard in the centre of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

apples

Yantai - East - A biketruck "load" of apples on its way to a small market on the eastern edge of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

melon vendor

Yantai - A man sits watching the street at his "melon stall" in the centre of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

in the shade

Yantai - A man pushes a cart on a main road in the centre of the city - afternoon
photo: mhobbs

eastern market

Yantai - A quiet moment at the 'eastern' Yantai fruit and vegetable market - afternoon
photo: mhobbs