old man - Huaihuaphoto/digital manipulation mhobbs
centre market Huaihua - one of the many market entrances - "polly" a Chinese English teacher - and Cecilia - the umbrella is for "protection" from the hash sunphoto. mhobbs
centre market Huaihua - Cecilia and i having lunch - pigs heart - photo. mhobbs
centre market Huaihua - one of the many fan shopsphoto. mhobbs
centre market Huaihua - inside the marketphoto. mhobbs
centre market Huaihua - "bike lane"photo. mhobbs
centre market Huaihua - cart depotphoto. mhobbs
cart man - centre market Huaihua - men like this, move carts around the city transporting everything from fridges to loads of vegtablesphoto. mhobbs
melon woman - centre market - strange bitter - almost tasteless melonsphoto. mhobbs
centre market - Huaihuaphoto. mhobbs
washing - this is the site of new apartments, offices and shops for Huaihua University - it faces a busy roadphoto. mhobbs
Huaihua - is a hot and dusty place - in the western part of Hunan province - South Central China. The food here predominately is "hot" "chou-mien" noodles - or "chou-fan" stir-fried rice. Nice...!photo. mhobbs
banana man - always smiling - 3.5 Yuan per kgphoto/digital manipulation. mhobbs
banana man - always smiling - photo/digital manipulation. mhobbs
sleeping manphoto/digital manipulation. mhobbs
8 ball boy - on the streets of Huaihua - the game of pool is just as popular as it is in the west - the only difference being that the tables are usually left outside - exposed to all weatherphoto/digital manipulation. mhobbs
centre of the city - the streets of huaihua - washingphoto. mhobbs
watermelon man - photo/digital manipulation. mhobbs
water man - this man brings "drinking" water to our apartment - photo/digital manipulation. mhobbs
mother and child - Workers in china - receive the lowest wages of almost any in the world - the conditions that they both live and work in are beyond belief - This posses an interesting and timely question regarding the Communist regime - which historically has "stood-by" the rights of "the worker" but now with the increasing dependency on cheap labor to "fuel the fire of the factory" - the question arises on whose side does the "Party" now stand? Is it on the side of the millions who have suffered the injustice of a one party system or is it on the side of big business - who continue to oil the machine of the party?photo/digital manipulation. mhobbs
