Welcome to my slideshow of Chinese faces: )

These were people I met on the road as I traveled around the

country…

My first trip away from my home base of Zhuhai was over to the

nearby island:

HONG KONG

It’s near Zhuhai, but it’s another world.

• See my posts on Hong Kong to see why: http://newplateaus.areavoices.com/2011/05/10/hong-kong-international/

• Here’s what I take to be a typical, hip Hong Kong business guy

But make no mistake, Hong Kong has a lot of diversity.

• International presence in the Kowloon district and the Filipino housemaids were off for Hong Kong’s Labor Day.

• And here’s the rest of faces from this neck of the woods…

She was posing for a photographer; and I took my turn:

A boy at the aviary, one at the beach; a man in line at a designer store (no kidding) and a couple

Jehovah’s Witnesses:

This last spring, I visited the breathtaking views at Yangshuo. But it’s the people of this rural area

that we’re concerned with today:

The previous women were from one of China’s 56 ethnic minorities.The rest of these folks belonged to the

majority, Han, I believe…

From the previous slide:

• The dude with water shapes rocks from the river and sells them. The old ladies sell flowers. The old man invited me in his home, gestured me to go on the roof, but didn’t follow me up and I was on the roof alone. I didn’t understand…

Yangshuo, Guangxi Province

• A woman makes rice and meat wrapped in leaves.

• Our friendly tollbooth operator heading home.

Then I went on my big, central China trek that I just wrapped up

writing about:• Started in Beijing• Went south to Henan Province• Further south to Hubei Province• And west to Xi’an before going back south

to Zhuhai• It was a lightning bolt through the heart of

China. Here’s who’s makes up the heartland of China:

First, my fellow faces in transit from one place to the next:

These were from one overnight ride:

Beijing People

More of ‘em:

Henan Province:

Hubei Province: