Huaihua - University - eastern campus
- caretakers home on foggy morning
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Huaihua - University - western campus - Gate
- "welcome balloons" and banners for the new first year students
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Huaihua - University - western campus - thermos stall - at the
begining of each school year - thermos - wash basins -
coat hangers - bowls - lunch "cans" and plastic drinking-cups
are sold (at a profit to the University) to the new students
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Huaihua - University - eastern campus - girls walking to class
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Huaihua - east - Yingfeng East Road - woman on bike
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Huaihua - east - Yingfeng East Road - riders - bright
mid-afternoon
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Huaihua - sidewalk - paper recycling
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Huaihua - sidewalk - wok washing
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Huaihua - on the outskirts of town - construction - cranes and
building sites litter the landscape - hordings proclaiming a
new standard in luxury - distract the eye - luxury apartments
and business park developments - are just part of the
endless development overtaking both the rural and
urban neighborhoods - This type of development posses
many questions about affluence and "for whom are they
building these for?"
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Huaihua - Yingfeng East Road - pulling a cart loaded with
refuse from one of the many restaurant that line Huaihua's
main street
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Huaihua - University - eastern campus - English major student
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Huaihua - University - western campus - early morning -
teacher walks to catch the bus to the eastern campus -
a ten minute jouney
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Huaihua - central market - woman preparring coals to
"dry-roast" chestnut's
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Huaihua - eastern campus - english building -
security guard
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Huaihua University - western campus - bike
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Huaihua - University - eastern campus - English major
student - with class sizes close to fifty and almost
three in four students not obtaining a place at any University
within China - this young woman - a second year
English major - is one of the "lucky" ones
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Huaihua - University - eastern campus - windows of the "new"
teaching building
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Huaihua - central - small "back street" - motor bike men
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Huaihua - eastern campus - stool "stack" - students piled their stools
in this chaotic fashion - at the entrance forecourt of the new
english building - waiting for a "Chinese" english teacher
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Huaihua - eastern campus - new english building "tower"
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