catching-up on the news

In a small backstreet in the centre of the city a woman stands by her "biketruck" loaded with oranges and catches-up on the news
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catching up on the news #2 - square # 40

A woman pushes her "baked sweet potato" oven/cart along a small backstreet in the centre of the city, while another street vendor watches as she catches up on the news photo: mhobbs

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
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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
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triptych #1 - row

Yantai - East - A row of small businesses in a narrow backstreet in the east of the city - late afternoon
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soho - square # 32

Yantai - Central - A woman stands by her 'cart' in a small market street in the centre of the city - afternoon
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classic chinese pose # 2

Yantai - North - A woman pushes her bicycle along a narrow 'nong tang' (alley) on the northern edge of the city - afternoon
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red coat # 2

Yantai - Centre - A woman on her bicycle with large "spring onions" strapped to the back of her bike, travels along a "nong tang" (alley) on the northern edge of the city - late afternoon
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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.

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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
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family

Yantai - East - On the eastern edge of the city at a small market, we were out shopping for a pair of 'winter slippers' for my beautiful fiance, at the vendors stall where we found what we were looking for a family stopped to admire our daughter (1 year and 3 months old) the boy is facsinated with my curly hair - afternoon
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stars on the wall

Yantai - North - A woman sits outside her store, reading a book with a coal burning kettle stove at her feet, on the northern edge of the city - afternoon
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holding the bowl - square # 20

Yantai - East - A street vendor chats with a customer (who is eating a bowl of noodles) in a small backstreet on the eastern edge of the city - afternoon
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wet alley

Yantai - East - In a "nong tang" or alley on the eastern edge of town a girl uses an umbrella to protect herself from the rain - afternoon
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on her bike

Yantai - Central - A woman on her bicycle on one of the many busy roads on the northern edge of the city - afternoon
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red cap

Yantai - A "biketruck" girl rides across a busy street in the centre of the city on a hot afternoon - afternoon
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face

Yantai - Old woman in a small backstreet on the eastern edge of the city, with new apartment buildings in the background - afternoon
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waiting

Yantai - A street vendor in a small backstreet near "Shandong Institute of Business and Technology" - afternoon
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cleaning

Yantai - A young woman cleans vegetables in a small backstreet in the eastern edge of the city - afternoon
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grin #2

Yantai - A street vendor shares a joke with a customer, small back street eastern edge of the city
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