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  • Brazil's Ricardo Alves, left, Damiao Ramos, center and Sandro Soares, listen the the Brazilian national anthem moments before the start of the Football 5-A side match between Brazil and Great Britain at the Paralympics in Beijing , China, Saturday, Sept.13, 2008. Brazil won 5-0.
    BEIJING PARALYMPICS 05
  • A Chinese child is fed instant noodles at a food stall at  the Olympic green in Beijing , China, Wednesday, Aug.20, 2008. It is one of the strangest things about the Olympics: From far away, it looks very close.Watching the Olympics on television, the athletes are right in front of you.  Up close, though, it's normally a different story. From the spectators' stands, the athletes are often just distant specks amid the enormity of some of the largest sports stadiums in the world. And there's so much else to grab your attention. There are snack bars,Coke machines, and life-sized cutouts of Chinese athletes with which you can pose. There are parades of Fuwas, the Olympic mascots. There are dancing fountains in front of the Water Cube, and thousands of volunteers to help you out.
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  • Sugui Kriss, second left, cheers along with her team mates, Hope Lewellen, first left, Kari Miller, center, Brenda Maymon, second right and Alexandra Gouldie, first right, as her American team scores against China during a sitting volleyball match  at the Paralympic games in Beijing , China, Tuesday, Sept.9, 2008. Sugui Kriss always wanted to return to China to find a few of her roots and, perhaps, to leave her mark on the country She's done both She marched into the National Stadium _ the Bird's Nest _ last weekend for the opening ceremony of Beijing's Paralympic Games, representing the U.S. as a member of its sitting volleyball team. How different this was from her early life in southern China; an abandoned infant who was raised in an orphanage in Kunming until she was adopted 13 years ago by the American couple Charles and Marilyn Kriss. If Paralympic organizers are looking for a poster girl, SuGui Kriss would be a perfect choice.
    CHINA PARALYMPICS 07
  • Ukraine's Dmytro Kryzhanovskyy, center prepares to start the leg of his relay for the  men's 4X50 medley at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics in Beijing , China, Monday, Sept.15, 2008. China went on to win the gold.
    CHINA PARALYMPICS 08
  • Chinese swimmer Li Hanhua, center, rests  after the final for the men's 4X50 medley at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics in Beijing , China, Monday, Sept.15, 2008. China went on to win the gold.
    CHINA PARALYMPICS 01
  • USA's team makes their entrance to the court  for the gold medal final wheelchair rugby match between the USA and Australia at the 2008 Beijing Paralympic Games in Beijing , China, Tuesday, Sept.16, 2008. The USA took the gold medal winning 53-44 against Australia.
    CHINA PARALYMPICS 10
  • USA's Roy Perkins prepares to leave at the end of the final for the men's 4X50 medley at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics in Beijing , China, Monday, Sept.15, 2008. China went on to win the gold.
    CHINA PARALYMPICS 06
  • Chinese gold medal Athletes, Wu Yunhun, left and Zhang Hongwei bear the Olympic torch    at the Paralympic Games opening ceremony in Beijing , China, Saturday, Sept.6, 2008.
    CHINA PARALYMPICS 04
  • Denmark's Peter Rosenmeier, left, shows his gold medal as Netherland's Nico Blok bites his bronze medal, at the medal award ceremony for Singles Standing Class 6 Table Tennis at the Paralympic Games in against  Beijing , China, Thursday, Sept.11, 2008.
    CHINA PARALYMPICS 12
  • France's Christophe Durand, listens to the French national anthem aftere winning the gold medal for Singles sitting Class 4-5 Table Tennis during the medal award ceremony at the Paralympic Games  Beijing , China, Thursday, Sept.11, 2008. Durand won the Gold medal.
    CHINA PARALYMPICS 11
  • France's Christophe Durand celebrates a point scored against Korea's Jung Eun-Chang during the gold medal Singles sitting Class 4-5 Table Tennis match  at the Paralympic Games in Beijing , China, Thursday, Sept.11, 2008. Durand won the Gold medal.
    CHINA PARALYMPICS 09
  • A Chinese military tank heads towards Tiananmen Square where a rehearsal for China's 60th anniversary will be held in Beijing, China, Friday, Sept. 18, 2009.Tanks, armored personnel carrier and rocket launchers rolled along a major Beijing boulevard Sunday in practice for a parade next month to mark the 60th anniversary.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 10
  • A group of women from a central China village who had come to Beijing seeking redress for the murder of a family member are taken away by police at Tiananmen square in Beijing, China, Thursday, Feb.5, 2009.While the nearly 3,000 delegates to the National People's Congress met, rings of uniformed and plainclothes police sealed off Tiananmen and kept ordinary Chinese and the normal hordes of tourists away. Police detained about two dozen people.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 13
  • A Chinese paramilitary Police helps Chinese police clear the scene where petitioners threw written accounts of their grievances near Tiananmen square, in hopes to have their case seen and heard by a larger audience, after failed attempts to have their cases heard at the Petition's office  in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Many Chinese have come from around the country to Beijing seeking redress for problems with local officials, flocking to the capital to coincide with the annual National People's Congress session. Their numbers commonly increase ahead of the meeting, and they are often followed by local police to the capital and taken back home.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 17
  • Chinese petitioners start their day in the cramp quarters they share, as they prepare head out to air grievances in hopes to have her case seen by the petitions office in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Many Chinese have come from around the country to Beijing seeking redress for problems with local officials, flocking to the capital to coincide with the annual National People's Congress session. Their numbers commonly increase ahead of the meeting, and they are often followed by local police to the capital and taken back home.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 16
  • A middle-aged petitioner from the countryside his head and shirt bloody,surrounded  by police and paramilitary police at Tiananmen square in Beijing, China, Thursday, Feb.5, 2009. Police detained about two dozen people, among them a group of women from a central China village who had come to Beijing seeking redress for the murder of a family member. Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention.The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 12
  • A middle-aged petitioner from the countryside his head and shirt bloody, is carried away by police and paramilitary police at Tiananmen square in Beijing, China, Thursday, March 5, 2009. Police detained about two dozen people, among them a group of women from a central China village who had come to Beijing seeking redress for the murder of a family member. Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention.The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 09
  • A homeless man with a broken arm lies at an alley where petitioners live as they wait to have her case seen by the petitions office in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Many Chinese have come from around the country to Beijing seeking redress for problems with local officials, flocking to the capital to coincide with the annual National People's Congress session. Their numbers commonly increase ahead of the meeting, and they are often followed by local police to the capital and taken back home.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 10
  • A poster showing the projected view of an urban development on display at the site where investors plan to build it Beijing, China, Tuesday, Nov. 11, 2008. Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline Teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country.In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. .China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities.
    CHINA MEGACITIES 09
  • Delegates attend a plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference at Beijing's Great Hall of the people Beijing, China, Saturday, March 7, 2009.China's National People's Congress is a largely powerless body but it represents one of the country's last displays of old style communism. Ethnic minority delegates from around the country attend the meetings wearing traditional costumes, a conceit which allows the government to argue that the nation's different cultures co-exist harmoniously. Little is decided at these gatherings though. The NPC functions largely as a rubber stamp body for policies put forward by the Communist party's elite.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 12
  • Delegates have tea ahead of a plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, at Beijing's Great Hall of the people Beijing, China, Saturday, March 7, 2009. China's National People's Congress is a largely powerless body but it represents one of the country's last displays of old style communism. Ethnic minority delegates from around the country attend the meetings wearing traditional costumes, a conceit which allows the government to argue that the nation's different cultures co-exist harmoniously. Little is decided at these gatherings though. The NPC functions largely as a rubber stamp body for policies put forward by the Communist party's elite.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 06
  • A man poses for a picture with two women and a chimpanzee at the Zoo in Beijing, China, Thursday, Aug. 13, 2009.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 05
  • Protesters show letters detailing their complaints and asking for justice as they are taken away by police outside of the Foreign Ministry  Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec.10, 2008. Two dozen people held a bold protest using the 60th anniversary of the declaration of human rights to decry a myriad of alleged government abuses.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 01
  • An usher clears tea cups from the stage where leaders sat, at the end of the  National People's Congress at the Great Hall of the People, after the annual session's final day in  Beijing, China, Friday, March 13, 2009.The Great Hall of the people's with it's impressive Stalinist building style and attention to protocol remains as one of the the country's last showcases  of old style communism on a grand scale.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 05
  • Chinese Attendants wait for delegates at the second plenary session of the National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, China, Monday, March 9, 2009. The Great Hall of the people's with it's impressive Stalinist building style and attention to protocol remains as one of the the country's last showcases  of old style communism on a grand scale.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 01
  • Dancers from the National Ballet of China rehearse at the their studio in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 21, 2009.  For Chinese, ballet is tangled up with China's blood-soaked revolutionary past, arriving here in the 1950s on a wave of pro-Soviet fervor and quickly repurposed as a propaganda weapon during the Cultural Revolution.
    CHINA BALLET 05
  • A Petitioner is taken away by police at Tiananmen square in Beijing, China, Thursday, March 5, 2009.While the nearly 3,000 delegates to the National People's Congress met, rings of uniformed and plainclothes police sealed off Tiananmen and kept ordinary Chinese and the normal hordes of tourists away. Police detained about two dozen people. Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention.The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 15
  • A Chinese Petitioners approach a car, blocking the vehicle's way, as they plead to show their grievances, near a local government office supposed to receive petitions in  Beijing, China, Friday, Feb.27, 2009. Police have taken away more than 1,000 petitioners looking to air their grievances ahead of the annual meeting of China's legislature, supporter of the petitioners said. Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention. The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 14
  • Chinese Petitioners kneel before a car, blocking the vehicle's way, as they beg to display their petition letters near a local government office supposed to receive grievances in  Beijing, China, Friday, Feb.27, 2009.  Police have taken away more than 1,000 petitioners looking to air their grievances ahead of the annual meeting of China's legislature. Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention.The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 11
  • Chinese petitioners throw written accounts of their grievances in the air at a busy shopping street, near Tiananmen square, in hopes to have her case seen and heard by a larger audience, after failed attempts to have their cases heard at the Petition's office  in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009.Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention. The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 07
  • A Chinese petitioner takes a  2 hour ride to the city to air her grievances in hopes to have her case seen by the petitions office in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009.Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention. The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 05
  • Chinese petitioners prepare written statements of their of their grievances in the cramp quarters they share, as they in hopes to have her case seen by the petitions office in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention. The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 03
  • Li Shuzhen, who suffers of cancer and accuses her Doctors of medical malpractice shows her injuries in hopes to have her case seen by the petitions office in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009.Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention. The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTCE 04
  • A Chinese petitioner shows a written account of her grievances in hopes to have her case seen by the petitions office in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009.Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention. The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 02
  • Costume characters of a Teletubbie and Pleasant Goat have a chat at a fun fair as the National Day holidays wind down in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2009.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 08
  • Chinese elderly ballroom dance at Coal Mountain Park in Beijing, China, Sunday, March 15, 2009.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 11
  • Chinese head for the pool at a water park in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 04
  • A soldier dressed as an usher yawns before the third plenary session of the National People's Congress, in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Tuesday, March 10, 2009.  The Great Hall of the people's with it's impressive Stalinist building style and attention to protocol remains as one of the the country's last showcases  of old style communism on a grand scale.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 16
  • A guest to a celebration of the 99th Anniversary of the International Women's Day at the Great Hall of the People poses for a souvenir snap shot next to a flower pot in Beijing, China, Friday, March 6, 2009. The Great Hall of the people's with it's impressive Stalinist building style and attention to protocol remains as one of the the country's last showcases  of old style communism on a grand scale.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 15
  • A Chinese worker polishes the floors of the Great Hall of the People ahead of the annual meeting of the Chinese legislature next week  in Beijing, China, Saturday, Feb.28, 2009. The Great Hall of the people's with it's impressive Stalinist building style and attention to protocol remains as one of the the country's last showcases  of old style communism on a grand scale.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 14
  • An Usher waits for delegates at the Great Hall of the people  Beijing, China, Friday, March 6, 2009. The Great Hall of the people's with it's impressive Stalinist building style and attention to protocol remains as one of the the country's last showcases  of old style communism on a grand scale.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 13
  • An usher watches ove  delegates during the third plenary session of the National People's Congress, in Beijing's Great Hall of the People Tuesday, March 10, 2009. The Great Hall of the people's with it's impressive Stalinist building style and attention to protocol remains as one of the the country's last showcases  of old style communism on a grand scale.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 11
  • Chinese soldiers stand guard during the second plenary session of the National People's Congress in Beijing's Great Hall of the People, China, Monday, March 9, 2009.The Great Hall of the people's with it's impressive Stalinist building style and attention to protocol remains as one of the the country's last showcases  of old style communism on a grand scale.
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  • One of the lead ballerinas from the  National Ballet of China heads to rehearsal at  the National Ballet's studio in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 21, 2009.  For Chinese, ballet is tangled up with China's blood-soaked revolutionary past, arriving here in the 1950s on a wave of pro-Soviet fervor and quickly repurposed as a propaganda weapon during the Cultural Revolution.
    CHINA BALLET 08
  • Dancers from the National Ballet of China rehearse at the their studio in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 21, 2009.  For Chinese, ballet is tangled up with China's blood-soaked revolutionary past, arriving here in the 1950s on a wave of pro-Soviet fervor and quickly repurposed as a propaganda weapon during the Cultural Revolution.
    CHINA BALLET 06
  • Ballerina shoes belonging to Dancers from the National Ballet of China sit on the ground during a rehearsal at the their studio in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 21, 2009.  For Chinese, ballet is tangled up with China's blood-soaked revolutionary past, arriving here in the 1950s on a wave of pro-Soviet fervor and quickly repurposed as a propaganda weapon during the Cultural Revolution.
    CHINA BALLET 01
  • Chinese pose for a pictue next to the likeness of a giant shark as they enjoy their May day holidays at the zoo in Beijing, China Thursday May 3, 2007.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 01
  • Chinese police arrive to the seen where petitioners threw written accounts of their grievances in the air at a busy shopping street, near Tiananmen square, in hopes to have her case seen and heard by a larger audience, after failed attempts to have their cases heard at the Petition's office  in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009. Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention. The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 08
  • A Chinese petitioner writes an account of his grievances in hopes to have his case seen by the petitions office in  Beijing, China, Tuesday, March 3, 2009.Widespread frustration with the petition system is simmering and in several recent cases has boiled over, with a handful of people making desperate bids for attention. The peak season for the pilgrimages is the beginning of March, when China's lawmakers gather in the capital for their once-a-year legislative session. In an acknowledgement that the petition system is in crisis, China's Premier Wen Jiabao vowed to improve legal channels for grievances.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 06
  • A dancer from National Ballet of China performs the Mao-era ballet  "The Red Detachment of Women" in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Signature works such as "The Red Detachment of Women",  a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism and her heroic turn in an all-female army troupe, satisfy a taste for nostalgia among China's older audiences and are kitschy fun for younger crowds.
    CHINA BALLET 07
  • Dancers from National Ballet of China perform the Mao-era ballet  "The Red Detachment of Women" in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Signature works such as "The Red Detachment of Women",  a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism and her heroic turn in an all-female army troupe, satisfy a taste for nostalgia among China's older audiences and are kitschy fun for younger crowds.
    CHINA BALLET 02
  • A Chinese Protester wrestles with police as she tries to retrieve  letters detailing her complaints and asks for justice outside of the Foreign Ministry  Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec.10, 2008. Two dozen people held a bold protest using the 60th anniversary of the declaration of human rights to decry a myriad of alleged government abuses.(AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 19
  • A Chinese Protester cries over the death of a relative as he shows letters detailing his complaints and asks for justice outside of the Foreign Ministry  Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec.10, 2008. Two dozen people held a bold protest using the 60th anniversary of the declaration of human rights to decry a myriad of alleged government abuses.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 20
  • Gold medalist Sweden's Jonas Jacobsson, center, celebrates along side Silver medalist Zhang Cuiping, left and bronze medalist Dong Chao during the award ceremony for the mixed R-6 50 mm Free Rifle Prone SH1 Shooting competition at the Paralympics in Beijing , China, Friday, Sept.12, 2008.
    CHINA PARALYMPICS 03
  • A Chinese attendant checks that everything is ready for an official ceremony at the  Great Hall of the People in Beijing , China, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 07
  • A Protester is approached by police after voicing his complaints and asking for justice outside of the Foreign Ministry  Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec.10, 2008. Two dozen people held a bold protest using the 60th anniversary of the declaration of human rights to decry a myriad of alleged government abuses.
    CHINA CHASING JUSTICE 18
  • Delegates head to a National People's Congress plenary session at the great Hall of the peopleBeijing, China, Monday, March 9, 2009. China's National People's Congress is a largely powerless body but it represents one of the country's last displays of old style communism. Ethnic minority delegates from around the country attend the meetings wearing traditional costumes, a conceit which allows the government to argue that the nation's different cultures co-exist harmoniously. Little is decided at these gatherings though. The NPC functions largely as a rubber stamp body for policies put forward by the Communist party's elite.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 04
  • Jim Schmidt, from Kentucky, arrives to a trading pin post outside of the Olympic Green venue in Beijing , China, Friday, Aug. 15, 2008. Beijing eyes may be pinned to broadcast of Olympic sports, but another event is drawing attention to the city's sidewalks. Chinese and foreign enthusiast are heading to trading sites that have sprouted across the capital in search of the collectible pins that Olympic sponsors, organizing committees and media companies distribute or sell at every games.
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  • China's Wang Yafeng gets ready to take a corner during the  Football 5-A side match between China and Spain at the 2008 Beijing Paralympics Games in Beijing , China, Saturday, Sept.13, 2008. China won 1-0.(AP Photo/ Elizabeth Dalziel)
    CHINA PARALYMPICS 02
  • A Chinese hostess wears Olympic rings in her hair during the opening ceremony for the Athletes village in Beijing , China, Sunday, July, 27, 2008.
    BEIJING OLYMPICS 001
  • A Chinese woman who underwent a leg streching operation shows the ammount of leg growth she is hoping to achieve in Beijing, China May 15, 2005. An Estimated one million Chinese people per year flocking to plastic surgery as a way to boost their confidence as expendable incomes grow. Fueling the trend is a desire to compete in a rapidly changing society where image and first impressions count and social stigmas on buying perfection are few. A few decades ago, a Chinese woman could have been denounced and maybe even beaten for wearing lipstick, much less undergoing surgery to improve their looks. In the 1960s and 1970s, the closest thing to a Chinese beauty ideal was Liu Hulan, a robust 15-year-old country girl with a practical bob and not a trace of makeup who was decapitated by the Nationalists when she refused to name her fellow Communists in 1947.
    CHINA NIP AND TUCK 06
  • Hao Lulu, famous in China for her drive to transform herself through plastic surgery prepares to undergo her 22nd operation in Beijing, China Aug. 24, 2005. An Estimated one million Chinese people per year flocking to plastic surgery as a way to boost their confidence as expendable incomes grow. Fueling the trend is a desire to compete in a rapidly changing society where image and first impressions count and social stigmas on buying perfection are few. A few decades ago, a Chinese woman could have been denounced and maybe even beaten for wearing lipstick, much less undergoing surgery to improve their looks. In the 1960s and 1970s, the closest thing to a Chinese beauty ideal was Liu Hulan, a robust 15-year-old country girl with a practical bob and not a trace of makeup who was decapitated by the Nationalists when she refused to name her fellow Communists in 1947.
    CHINA NIP AND TUCK 03
  • A Plastic surgeon looks at an eyelid surgery procedure done on a young inner Mongolian immigrant in Beijing, China Oct. 26, 2005. An Estimated one million Chinese people per year flocking to plastic surgery as a way to boost their confidence as expendable incomes grow. .Fueling the trend is a desire to compete in a rapidly changing society where image and first impressions count and social stigmas on buying perfection are few. A few decades ago, a Chinese woman could have been denounced and maybe even beaten for wearing lipstick, much less undergoing surgery to improve their looks. In the 1960s and 1970s, the closest thing to a Chinese beauty ideal was Liu Hulan, a robust 15-year-old country girl with a practical bob and not a trace of makeup who was decapitated by the Nationalists when she refused to name her fellow Communists in 1947..
    CHINA NIP AND TUCK 02
  • A young Chinese holiday maker poses for a snapshot at the steps of Oval office, seen here in scale model, part of a  permanent display at the World Park in Beijing, China Sunday May 6, 2007. Chinese can view scale models some of the most famous world sites without having to leave Beijing.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 02
  • Pedestrians walk along side high rises in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2008. Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country. In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities.
    CHINA MEGACITIES 14
  • A man commutes on the fast train from Tianjing to  Beijing, China, Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008. Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country. In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities.
    CHINA MEGACITIES 13
  • Workers in an office speak in Beijing, China, Monday, Oct. 27, 2008. Block after city block, towers of concrete, steel and glass fill the skyline. .Teeming and congested, the intensely urban landscapes of China's biggest cities show a glimpse of what the future will hold for the rest of the country.In the sprawling megacities of Beijing, Shanghai and Chongqing, where populations exceed 10 million people, extreme urban density means that the number of people living within a few square blocks here is equal to the population of entire mid-size U.S. cities. .China's urban population soared to 607 million people last year _ nearly equaling the 700 million living in the countryside. The country's headlong plunge toward urbanization continues unabated as tens of millions of migrants from the countryside flood to cities in search of money, jobs and other opportunities.
    CHINA MEGACITIES 03
  • A monk sits among fellow delegates at a plenary session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, at Beijing's Great Hall of the people Beijing, China, Saturday, March 7, 2009. China's National People's Congress is a largely powerless body but it represents one of the country's last displays of old style communism. Ethnic minority delegates from around the country attend the meetings wearing traditional costumes, a conceit which allows the government to argue that the nation's different cultures co-exist harmoniously. Little is decided at these gatherings though. The NPC functions largely as a rubber stamp body for policies put forward by the Communist party's elite.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 02
  • A Plastic surgeon performs an eyelid surgery procedure done on a young inner Mongolian immigrant in Beijing, China Oct. 26, 2005. An Estimated one million Chinese people per year flocking to plastic surgery as a way to boost their confidence as expendable incomes grow. .Fueling the trend is a desire to compete in a rapidly changing society where image and first impressions count and social stigmas on buying perfection are few. A few decades ago, a Chinese woman could have been denounced and maybe even beaten for wearing lipstick, much less undergoing surgery to improve their looks. In the 1960s and 1970s, the closest thing to a Chinese beauty ideal was Liu Hulan, a robust 15-year-old country girl with a practical bob and not a trace of makeup who was decapitated by the Nationalists when she refused to name her fellow Communists in 1947.
    CHINA NIP AND TUCK 09
  • An eyelid surgery patient rests after undergoing a procedure in Beijing, China Oct. 26, 2005. An Estimated one million Chinese people per year flocking to plastic surgery as a way to boost their confidence as expendable incomes grow. .Fueling the trend is a desire to compete in a rapidly changing society where image and first impressions count and social stigmas on buying perfection are few. A few decades ago, a Chinese woman could have been denounced and maybe even beaten for wearing lipstick, much less undergoing surgery to improve their looks. In the 1960s and 1970s, the closest thing to a Chinese beauty ideal was Liu Hulan, a robust 15-year-old country girl with a practical bob and not a trace of makeup who was decapitated by the Nationalists when she refused to name her fellow Communists in 1947.
    CHINA NIP AND TUCK 01
  • Chinese line up to see Mao's mummified body inside his Mausoleum in Tiananmen square, Beijing, China May 15, 2006.Despite failed policies that left millions dead and brought the country near to collapse, Mao is widely revered for his founding of communist China.
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  • An eyelid surgery patient rests after undergoing a procedure in Beijing, China Oct. 26, 2005. An Estimated one million Chinese people per year flocking to plastic surgery as a way to boost their confidence as expendable incomes grow. .Fueling the trend is a desire to compete in a rapidly changing society where image and first impressions count and social stigmas on buying perfection are few. A few decades ago, a Chinese woman could have been denounced and maybe even beaten for wearing lipstick, much less undergoing surgery to improve their looks. In the 1960s and 1970s, the closest thing to a Chinese beauty ideal was Liu Hulan, a robust 15-year-old country girl with a practical bob and not a trace of makeup who was decapitated by the Nationalists when she refused to name her fellow Communists in 1947.
    CHINA NIP AND TUCK.jpg
  • An eyelid surgery patient rests after undergoin a procedure in Beijing, China Oct. 26, 2005. An Estimated one million Chinese people per year flocking to plastic surgery as a way to boost their confidence as expendable incomes grow. .Fueling the trend is a desire to compete in a rapidly changing society where image and first impressions count and social stigmas on buying perfection are few. A few decades ago, a Chinese woman could have been denounced and maybe even beaten for wearing lipstick, much less undergoing surgery to improve their looks. In the 1960s and 1970s, the closest thing to a Chinese beauty ideal was Liu Hulan, a robust 15-year-old country girl with a practical bob and not a trace of makeup who was decapitated by the Nationalists when she refused to name her fellow Communists in 1947.
    CHINA NIP AND TUCK 10
  • Hao Lulu, famous in China for her drive to transform herself through plastic surgery shows off her buttocks implants to her doctors before undergoing her 22nd operation in Beijing, China Aug. 24, 2005. An Estimated one million Chinese people per year flocking to plastic surgery as a way to boost their confidence as expendable incomes grow. Fueling the trend is a desire to compete in a rapidly changing society where image and first impressions count and social stigmas on buying perfection are few. A few decades ago, a Chinese woman could have been denounced and maybe even beaten for wearing lipstick, much less undergoing surgery to improve their looks. In the 1960s and 1970s, the closest thing to a Chinese beauty ideal was Liu Hulan, a robust 15-year-old country girl with a practical bob and not a trace of makeup who was decapitated by the Nationalists when she refused to name her fellow Communists in 1947.
    CHINA NIP AND TUCK 05
  • A fan of Michael Jackson cries while holding a poster with his likeness ahead of the premiere of the documentary "This Is It" in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009.The Michael Jackson documentary "This Is It" has snapped up one of the last of China's 20 annual foreign movie import slots. Chinese censors approved the film , clearing it in time for the global release date of Oct. 28.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 12
  • Dancers from National Ballet of China perform the Mao-era ballet  "The Red Detachment of Women" in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Signature works such as "The Red Detachment of Women",  a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism and her heroic turn in an all-female army troupe, satisfy a taste for nostalgia among China's older audiences and are kitschy fun for younger crowds.
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  • Chinese soldiers stand guard in front of the Great Hall of the People at Tiananmen square in Beijing, China, Thursday, March 5, 2009. China's National People's Congress is a largely powerless body but it represents one of the country's last displays of old style communism. Ethnic minority delegates from around the country attend the meetings wearing traditional costumes, a conceit which allows the government to argue that the nation's different cultures co-exist harmoniously. Little is decided at these gatherings though. The NPC functions largely as a rubber stamp body for policies put forward by the Communist party's elite.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 10
  • Chinese attendants wait outside elevators at Great Hall of the People  in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Sept. 29, 2009. The Great Hall of the people's with it's impressive Stalinist building style and attention to protocol remains as one of the the country's last showcases  of old style communism on a grand scale.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 09
  • Dancers from the National Ballet of China rehearse scenes from Signature work "The Red Detachment of Women," a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism, in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 21, 2009.  For Chinese, ballet is tangled up with China's blood-soaked revolutionary past, arriving here in the 1950s on a wave of pro-Soviet fervor and quickly repurposed as a propaganda weapon during the Cultural Revolution.
    CHINA BALLET 13
  • Dancers from National Ballet of China perform the Mao-era ballet  "The Red Detachment of Women" in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Signature works such as "The Red Detachment of Women",  a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism and her heroic turn in an all-female army troupe, satisfy a taste for nostalgia among China's older audiences and are kitschy fun for younger crowds.
    CHINA BALLET 11
  • Dancers from National Ballet of China perform the Mao-era ballet  "The Red Detachment of Women" in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Dec. 16, 2009. Signature works such as "The Red Detachment of Women",  a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism and her heroic turn in an all-female army troupe, satisfy a taste for nostalgia among China's older audiences and are kitschy fun for younger crowds.
    CHINA BALLET 10
  • Dancers from the National Ballet of China rehearse scenes from Signature work "The Red Detachment of Women," a rousing story about a peasant girl liberated by communism, in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 21, 2009.  For Chinese, ballet is tangled up with China's blood-soaked revolutionary past, arriving here in the 1950s on a wave of pro-Soviet fervor and quickly repurposed as a propaganda weapon during the Cultural Revolution.
    CHINA BALLET 09
  • The forbidden city is seen empty after people were cleared from the area for security reasons in Beijing, China Thursday Jan 11, 2007.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 03
  • Chinese officials sign documents during a ceremony at the  Great Hall of the People in Beijing , China, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2008.
    CHINA GREAT HALL 08
  • A worker polishes the security cordon surrounding a very large chair set as decoration at the entrance to the plenary session room for the World Economic Foum in Dalian, China, Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 07
  • Apartment blocks are seen from the window of a facing building in Chongqing, China, Sunday, Nov. 2, 2008.
    CHINA MEGACITIES 10
  • Chinese line up to see Mao's mummified body inside his Mausoleum in Tiananmen square, Beijing, China May 15, 2006.Despite failed policies that left millions dead and brought the country near to collapse, Mao is widely revered for his founding of communist China.
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  • Chinese line up to see Mao's mummified body inside his Mausoleum in Tiananmen square, Beijing, China May 15, 2006.Despite failed policies that left millions dead and brought the country near to collapse, Mao is widely revered for his founding of communist China.
    CHINA CULT OF MAO 08
  • Chinese line up to see Mao's mummified body inside his Mausoleum in Tiananmen square, Beijing, China May 15, 2006.Despite failed policies that left millions dead and brought the country near to collapse, Mao is widely revered for his founding of communist China.
    CHINA CULT OF MAO 03
  • Chinese line up to see Mao's mummified body inside his Mausoleum in Tiananmen square, Beijing, China May 15, 2006.Despite failed policies that left millions dead and brought the country near to collapse, Mao is widely revered for his founding of communist China.
    CHINA CULT OF MAO 02
  • Chinese line up to see Mao's mummified body inside his Mausoleum in Tiananmen square, Beijing, China May 15, 2006.Despite failed policies that left millions dead and brought the country near to collapse, Mao is widely revered for his founding of communist China.
    CHINA CULT OF MAO 01
  • Chinese line up to see Mao's mummified body inside his Mausoleum in Tiananmen square, Beijing, China May 15, 2006.Despite failed policies that left millions dead and brought the country near to collapse, Mao is widely revered for his founding of communist China.
    CHINA CULT OF MAO 12
  • Chinese line up to see Mao's mummified body inside his Mausoleum in Tiananmen square, Beijing, China May 15, 2006.Despite failed policies that left millions dead and brought the country near to collapse, Mao is widely revered for his founding of communist China.
    CHINA CULT OF MAO 10
  • Chinese line up to see Mao's mummified body inside his Mausoleum in Tiananmen square, Beijing, China May 15, 2006.Despite failed policies that left millions dead and brought the country near to collapse, Mao is widely revered for his founding of communist China.
    CHINA CULT OF MAO 09
  • Chinese line up to see Mao's mummified body inside his Mausoleum in Tiananmen square, Beijing, China May 15, 2006.Despite failed policies that left millions dead and brought the country near to collapse, Mao is widely revered for his founding of communist China.
    CHINA CULT OF MAO 07
  • Chinese line up to see Mao's mummified body inside his Mausoleum in Tiananmen square, Beijing, China May 15, 2006.Despite failed policies that left millions dead and brought the country near to collapse, Mao is widely revered for his founding of communist China.
    CHINA CULT OF MAO 06
  • Chinese line up to see Mao's mummified body inside his Mausoleum in Tiananmen square, Beijing, China May 15, 2006.Despite failed policies that left millions dead and brought the country near to collapse, Mao is widely revered for his founding of communist China.
    CHINA CULT OF MAO 05
  • Chinese line up to see Mao's mummified body inside his Mausoleum in Tiananmen square, Beijing, China May 15, 2006.Despite failed policies that left millions dead and brought the country near to collapse, Mao is widely revered for his founding of communist China.
    CHINA CULT OF MAO 04
  • Hao Lulu, famous in China for her drive to transform herself through plastic surgery greets the media as she prepares to undergo her 22nd operation in Beijing, China Aug. 24, 2005. An Estimated one million Chinese people per year flocking to plastic surgery as a way to boost their confidence as expendable incomes grow. Fueling the trend is a desire to compete in a rapidly changing society where image and first impressions count and social stigmas on buying perfection are few. A few decades ago, a Chinese woman could have been denounced and maybe even beaten for wearing lipstick, much less undergoing surgery to improve their looks. In the 1960s and 1970s, the closest thing to a Chinese beauty ideal was Liu Hulan, a robust 15-year-old country girl with a practical bob and not a trace of makeup who was decapitated by the Nationalists when she refused to name her fellow Communists in 1947.
    CHINA NIP AND TUCK 08
  • Chinese models  compete during the China finals of the  2006 Manhunt World Man Model contest in the frame of China's Fashion Week in Beijing Wednesday March 29, 2006.
    CHINA MANHUNT 01
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