WEDNESDAY, APRIL 13.2005
KULTURE
THE UNIVERSITY DAILY KANSAN
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The Great Wall in Beijing is China's most famous landmark. Tourists from throughout the world come to walk on the wall that was built and renovated during several dynasties and still stands today.
Extremes
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pretty much nonexistent; which makes it clear that China is still developing.
China is a country of extremes, poor and wealthy. In major cities, such as Shanghai and Beijing, the luxuries in some people's living standards are overwhelming: they drive Mercedes or Lexus cars, and apartments are adorned with marble floors and crystal chandeliers. Go to the outskirts of any city, however, and you will find extreme poverty: houses with no electricity or running water and cardboard boxes or pieces of plastic used to patch up holes in the roofs.
Even in the city it's easy to find beggars and people who collect plastic bottles and aluminum cans to make a living. But in recent years a middle class has emerged.
Modern day technologies are becoming more and more accessible to the average person. More and more homes have computers and the Internet. City transportation systems, such as subways, are being installed. Old buildings are being torn down to build skyscrapers.
With this change the China of 2010 probably will be unrecognizable to the China of today.
Two elderly Chinese men play a game of Chinese Chess as a crowd of men surround the game and watch. Many elderly spend their time in parks playing cards or Chinese Chess.
True is a Overland Park sophomore studying pre-journalism and East Asian Studies with an emphasis in China. She has been studying in China since September 2004 and will return in August. She was a photographer for the Kansan from August 2003 to August 2004. Edited by Lisa Coble-Krings.
In Gui Yang, China, a Chinese mother and her baby wait in a farmers market. In Gui Yang, most babies are tied onto their mother's back with blankets.
Map of China
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