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  • 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 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
  • 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 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
  • 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.
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  • A contestant of the Plastic Surgery makeover television contest "Lovely Cinderella" prepares to take off her mask after undergoing various operations in Changsha, Hunan,  China Dec. 1, 2006. 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 12
  • 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 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Chinese elderly ballroom dance at Coal Mountain Park in Beijing, China, Sunday, March 15, 2009.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 11
  • 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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  • 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
  • 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 11
  • 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 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.jpg
  • 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
  • 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 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 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 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 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 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
  • Chinese head for the pool at a water park in Beijing, China, Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 04
  • Chinese youth practice military drills outside of their school in the model village of Nan Jie Cun, China, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.  Nan Jie Cun village in central China's Henan province advertises itself as a commune which continues to adhere to the communist teachings of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic 60 years ago. The village's industries are collectively owned. Workers receive bonds, instead of currency, and housing and healthcare are free. They sing revolutionary songs and march to work in lines. Despite being out of step with the rest of today's China, the village's industries are a success, and more than 7,000 migrants have requested to work at Nan Jie Cun.
    CHINA MODEL VILLAGE 03
  • 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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  • 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 06
  • 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
  • Soldiers from  2nd Battalion of Maoist army dance holding their weapons in the air as they prepare to leave for the mountains after a cultural program and remembrance ceremony in the village of Kholagaun, in the Maoist heartland of Nepal Thursday April 22, 2004.  In the mountains of Nepal, one of the world's last full-blown Maoist revolutions is thriving/forging ahead/gaining ground. The doctrines of Mao, the Chinese communist leader who believed in communism via an empowered peasantry, have found new life in the farm fields of this Himalayan kingdom. The rebels contend their revolution _ which has cost more than 9,500 lives _ is only possible through the barrel of a gun.
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  • Chinese youth dig in to their books during a lesson at a school in the model village of Nan Jie Cun, China, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.  Nan Jie Cun village in central China's Henan province advertises itself as a commune which continues to adhere to the communist teachings of Mao Zedong, who founded the People's Republic 60 years ago. The village's industries are collectively owned. Workers receive bonds, instead of currency, and housing and healthcare are free. They sing revolutionary songs and march to work in lines. Despite being out of step with the rest of today's China, the village's industries are a success, and more than 7,000 migrants have requested to work at Nan Jie Cun.
    CHINA MODEL VILLAGE 08
  • 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
  • Chinese men smoke and play cards by the side of the river in the outskirts of Shanghai, China May 10, 2005.
    CHINA DAILY LIFE 01
  • 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
  • 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 little girl, right, peers at a man in a protective suit a couple of hundred meters away from the farm in the northern grasslands of the Inner Mongolia region in Tengjiaying, China in this Thursday Nov. 3, 2005 file photo. China said Sunday it can't rule out bird flu in the death of a 12-year-old girl last month and has called on the World Health Organization to help with diagnosis.
    CHINA BIRD FLU 01
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 12
  • Workers unload electronic waste from trucks as seen from a hidden position inside of a vehicle, in an area where much of the world's electronic waste _ from cell phone chargers to mainframe computers _ ends up in Guiyu and other small towns like it in eastern China, Thursday March 16, 2006. Workers, many of them poorly paid migrants strip, smash and melt down circuit boards, mainly to extract the copper and other precious metals inside. The business has created massive pollution from leaded glass and other toxic materials.Such pollution could be mitigated by moves to recycle and properly dispose of so-called electronic waste that are gaining ground in the West.
    CHINA E-WASTE 11
  • Worker process electronic trash in an area where much of the world's e-waste _ from cell phone chargers to mainframe computers _ ends up in Nanyang, Guiyu and other small towns like it in eastern China, Thursday March 16, 2006. Workers, many of them poorly paid migrants strip, smash and melt down circuit boards, mainly to extract the copper and other precious metals inside.The business has created massive pollution from leaded glass and other toxic materials. Such pollution could be mitigated by moves to recycle and properly dispose of so-called electronic waste that are gaining ground in the West.
    CHINA E-WASTE 06
  • A worker processes electronic trash in an area where much of the world's e-waste _ from cell phone chargers to mainframe computers _ ends up in Nanyang, Guiyu and other small towns like it in eastern China, Thursday March 16, 2006. Workers, many of them poorly paid migrants strip, smash and melt down circuit boards, mainly to extract the copper and other precious metals inside.The business has created massive pollution from leaded glass and other toxic materials. Such pollution could be mitigated by moves to recycle and properly dispose of so-called electronic waste that are gaining ground in the West.
    CHINA E-WASTE 03
  • 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
  • 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 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 contestant of the Plastic Surgery makeover television contest "Lovely Cinderella" speaks to the camera after an operation in Changsha, Hunan,  China Dec. 1, 2006. 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 07
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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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.
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  • 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.
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  • A soldier from the  2nd Battalion extends a salute with the Maoist greeting, a clenched right fist, to villagers gathered to welcome them after they descended from the mountains to take part in a cultural program and remembrance ceremony in the village of Kholagaun, in the Maoist heartland of Nepal Thursday April 22, 2004.  In the mountains of Nepal, one of the world's last full-blown Maoist revolutions is thriving/forging ahead/gaining ground. The doctrines of Mao, the Chinese communist leader who believed in communism via an empowered peasantry, have found new life in the farm fields of this Himalayan kingdom. The rebels contend their revolution _ which has cost more than 9,500 lives _ is only possible through the barrel of a gun.
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  • Troops from the 2nd Battalion dance alongside villagers after descending from the mountains in to the valley to take part in a cultural program and remembrance ceremony in the village of Kholagaun, in the Maoist heartland of Nepal Thursday April 22, 2004.  In the mountains of Nepal, one of the world's last full-blown Maoist revolutions is thriving/forging ahead/gaining ground. The doctrines of Mao, the Chinese communist leader who believed in communism via an empowered peasantry, have found new life in the farm fields of this Himalayan kingdom. The rebels contend their revolution _ which has cost more than 9,500 lives _ is only possible through the barrel of a gun.
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  • A villager shows a picture of the late King Birendra of Nepal, who was murdered in alongside 10 other members of the royal family in 2001, is seen in  a heart shaped window in the wallet of a villager in the district of Rukum, viewed as the Maoist heartland Friday April 23, 2004. The Maoists, who say they are inspired by Chinese revolutionary leader Mao Zedong, have been battling since February 1996 to replace the monarchy with a communist state. The current Nepali King Gyanendra, faces besides tackling the insurgency, daily protests in the capital for dumping a democratically elected government in 2002.
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  • Villagers and Maoist soldiers dressed in civilian clothing play carrom ball after some troops belonging to the 2nd batallion made descended from the mountains  in the village of Kholagaun, in the Maoist heartland of Nepal Wednesday April 21, 2004.  In the mountains of Nepal, one of the world's last full-blown Maoist revolutions is thriving/forging ahead/gaining ground. The doctrines of Mao, the Chinese communist leader who believed in communism via an empowered peasantry, have found new life in the farm fields of this Himalayan kingdom. The rebels contend their revolution _ which has cost more than 9,500 lives _ is only possible through the barrel of a gun.
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  • A young soldier from the second battalion already marked by injuries of war listens to speakers during a cultural program and remembrance ceremony in the village of Kholagaun, in the Maoist heartland of Nepal Thursday April 22, 2004.  In the mountains of Nepal, one of the world's last full-blown Maoist revolutions is thriving/forging ahead/gaining ground. The doctrines of Mao, the Chinese communist leader who believed in communism via an empowered peasantry, have found new life in the farm fields of this Himalayan kingdom. The rebels contend their revolution _ which has cost more than 9,500 lives _ is only possible through the barrel of a gun.
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  • 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.
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  • 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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  • 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.
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  • Chinese play football in a green area set against the back drop of apartment buildings in Shanghai, China, Saturday, May 30, 2009. 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.
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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.
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  • 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.
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