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  • Chen Zhen (right) a law student with her friend on Nanjing East Road in Shanghai China. (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in June was 2600 kcals. She is 20 years of age; 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 106 pounds.  Chen Zhen eats at KFC 3 times a week and what she eats depends on the coupons that she and her friends gather to defray the cost of the meal. The rest of her meals in the course of a week are largely Chinese and traditional. She eats simple fare at her university campus cafeteria--soups with rice and vegetables. Her grandparents and father go without meat throughout the week so they can serve it to her on the weekends when she's home from school. MODEL RELEASED
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Palo Alto, CA restaurant
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Vendors prepare to sell breakfast at a street corner in Shanghai, China.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Taipei, Taiwan National Museum.
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  • Taitung, Taiwan
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Taipei, Taiwan. Night market.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan. Night market.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan. Bitter gourd health drink stand.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Napa Valley Opera House, Napa, California. The 500-seat theater was built in 1880 and restored and reopened in 2003. Peking Acrobats performed two shows at the Opera House in 2006.
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  • Napa Valley Opera House, Napa, California. The 500-seat theater was built in 1880 and restored and reopened in 2003. Peking Acrobats performed two shows at the Opera House in 2006.
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  • Napa Valley Opera House, Napa, California. The 500-seat theater was built in 1880 and restored and reopened in 2003. Peking Acrobats performed two shows at the Opera House in 2006.
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  • Chinatown, London, UK
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  • Soho/ Chinatown, London, UK
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  • A worker adds plastic resin to a dessert of plastic food at the factory of Iwasaki Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • A worker shows a sample of plastic food ready to be shipped at the factory of Iwasaki Co. Ltd, Tokyo, Japan.
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  • A worker naps on his bike at the wholesale market in Luo Yang, China.
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  • Neighbors of widowed farmer Lan Guihua make soymilk with a hand-powered stone mill at their home in Ganjiagou Village,  Sichuan Province, China. (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).
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  • Preparation for lunch at the home of Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, practices balancing on one hand in the practice room at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • The new Shanghai Circus World building in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The domed building seats more than 1,600 people.
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  • Workers rest in the living quarters of a construction company in the fast-growing Pudong area of Shanghai, China. (From the coverage of welder Huang Neng in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Living quarters and food services are on site, and at least 10 workers share one room. In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
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  • Widowed farmer Lan Guihua enjoys lunch at a small restaurant in a market town near Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, oversees the cooking of lunch for guests and neighbors at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu.
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  • Widowed farmer Lan Guihua 's neighbors prepare lunch for foreign guests at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, prepares a chicken for her guests and neighbors at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • A dog looks on impatiently as men slaughter a chicken for visitors at the home of Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer living in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.
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  • Lan Guihua's son, his dog, and a woman from the city of Chengdu ride a motorcycle he bought with proceeds from farming in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.  (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Chen Zhen, 20, law student in Shanghai China at home on the weekend with her father, grandmother and grandfather at dinner.  She eats at KFC 3 times a week during the school week. (Chen Zhen is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).
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  • Ming Wang Internet cafe in Shanghai, China, where extreme gamer Xu Zhipeng rents a chair for six months at a time and continuously plays games. His longest continuous game lasted three days and nights. China has more than 300 million Internet users; a number close to the entire population of the United States. (Xu Zhipeng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).
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  • Motorcyclists wait as pedestrians cross a busy street in Shanghai, China.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, practices balancing on one hand at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, prepares to practice balancing on one hand at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China.  (Cao Xiaoli is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, trains with an instructor in Shanghai, China. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, practices at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China.  (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, practices balancing on one hand in the practice room at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China.  (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous.
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  • Huang Neng, a welder from Henan Province sits in Pudong's Lujiazui Central Green Park in Shanghai, China. (Huang Neng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 4300 kcals. He is 36 years of age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall; and 136 pounds. The migrant welder has worked on a dozen trophy skyscrapers on the Huangpu River in Pudong New Area, across the river from old Shanghai. His current project is the Zhongrong Jasper Tower, which will top out at 48 floors, a short-statured building compared to its neighbors. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Huang Neng, a welder from Henan Province stands outside one of the workers' quarters near a construction site in the Pudong area of Shanghai, China. (He is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 4300 kcals. He is 36 years old; 5 feet, 6 inches tall and 136 pounds. The migrant welder has worked on a dozen trophy skyscrapers on the Huangpu River in Pudong New Area, across the river from old Shanghai. His current project is the Zhongrong Jasper Tower, which will top out at 48 floors, a short-statured building compared to its neighbors. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, in front of her home with her typical day's worth of food in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, balances on one hand with her day's worth of food at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China.  (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds. Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Construction welder Huang Neng, with his typical day's worth of food in Pudong's Lujiazui Central Green Park in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 4300 kcals. He is 36 years of  age; 5 feet, 6 inches tall and 136 pounds. The migrant welder has worked on a dozen trophy skyscrapers on the Huangpu River in Pudong New Area, across the river from old Shanghai. His current project is the Zhongrong Jasper Tower, at far right, which will top out at 48 floors?a short-statured building compared to its neighbors. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • On Green Island, a former prison island off the coast of SE Taiwan where political prisoners were incarcerated and re-educated during the unnervingly recent White Terror. There's actually still a high-security prison on the island, but it only holds 200 inmates (actual felons, not polital prisoners), as opposed to the couple thousand of earlier decades..Now it's mostly a tourist destination. We visited in the off season in March, thereby avoiding the 5,000-10,000 tourists that inundate the little place daily, though, being the off season, we had to contend instead with intermittent cold rain and high winds.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Taipei, Taiwan
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  • Taipei, Taiwan. Night market.
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  • Taipei, Taiwan. Bitter gourd health drink stand.
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  • Napa Valley Opera House, Napa, California. The 500-seat theater was built in 1880 and restored and reopened in 2003. Peking Acrobats performed two shows at the Opera House in 2006.
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  • Napa Valley Opera House, Napa, California. The 500-seat theater was built in 1880 and restored and reopened in 2003. Peking Acrobats performed two shows at the Opera House in 2006.
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  • Mall of America, Bloomington, MN
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  • Plastic food samples ready to be shipped in a Tokyo, Japan factory.
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  • Guangzhou, China. Xing Ping Market on a rainy day. (Xing Ping Market is now closed)
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  • Peking Opera actor. Beijing, China.
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  • Tiananmen Square; Beijing China.
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  • Lan Guihua (right), a widowed farmer, and her neighbor bleed a freshly killed chicken at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (She is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets). The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu.
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  • Fatigue takes its toll on dedicated extreme gamer, Xu Zhipeng (left), who plays online games day and night at Ming Wang Internet cafe in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  he caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 1600 kcals. He is 23 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches tall and 157 pounds.  He lives at his computer station, day and night, sleeping there when he's tired and showering once a week at a friend's apartment. His longest continuous game lasted three days and three nights. When he tires of gaming at the café he reads fantasy books. ?It's nice to rest your eyes on a book,? he says, even though he's reading it online. China has more than 300 million Internet users?a number close to the entire population of the United States. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Waglong Restaurant in Pudong, Shanghai, China, where freelance computer graphics artist and internet gamer Xu Zhipeng occasionally orders his meals. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) Twice a day Xu Zhipeng tears himself away from an online game for less than a minute to order a meal. The food is delivered to his computer station 10 minutes later, where he eats it without interrupting his game.
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  • The bristling city of Pudong as seen from the roof garden of the Peace Hotel on the Bund in Pudong, Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, practices balancing on one hand in the practice room at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals. She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • A troupe tries out its cycling act at the Shanghai Circus World, Shanghai, China, where acrobat Xiaoli Cao practices. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • A sky scrapper under construction looms above the rows of dormitories in which Huang Neng shares a room with nine other workers in Shanghai, China. (Huang Neng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)
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  • Workers enjoy a meal in the cafeteria of a construction company building the Zhrong Rong Jasper Tower in Pudong, Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
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  • A vendor sells duck meat at a market stall in Sichuan Province, China.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, tends to her garden at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China.   (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.)  The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Like most of her neighbors, the widow farmer and lifelong resident of Ganjiagou Village,  in Sichuan Province, keeps chickens, grinds her own soy beans for soy milk, and has a garden that supplies much of her greens. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Lan Guihua, a widowed farmer, at her home in Ganjiagou Village, Sichuan Province, China. (Lan Guihua is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets. The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1900 kcals. She is 68 years of age; 5 feet, 3 inches tall; and 121 pounds. Her farmhouse is tucked into a bamboo-forested hillside beneath her husband's grave, and the courtyard opens onto a view of citrus groves and vegetable fields. Chickens and dogs roam freely in the packed-earth courtyard, and firewood and brush for her kitchen wok are stacked under the eaves. Although homegrown vegetables and rice are her staples, chicken feathers and a bowl that held scalding water for easier feather plucking are clues to the meat course of a special meal for visitors. In this region, each rural family is its own little food factory and benefits from thousands of years of agricultural knowledge passed down from generation to generation.  She lives in the area of Production Team 7 of Ganjiagou Village, 1.5 hours south of the provincial capital of Sichuan Province?Chengdu. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Ming Wang Internet cafe in Shanghai, China, where extreme gamer Xu Zhipeng rents a chair for six months and continuously plays games. His longest continuous game lasted three days and nights. China has more than 300 million Internet users; a number close to the entire population of the United States. (Xu Zhipeng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).
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  • Tourists take pictures of fish and other marine life at the Shanghai Aquarium in Pudong, Shanghai, China
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  • Performers at the Peking Opera in downtown Shanghai, China.
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  • Waglong Restaurant in Pudong, Shanghai, China, where freelance computer graphics artist and internet gamer Xu Zhipeng occasionally orders his meals. Twice a day Xu Zhipeng tears himself away from an online game for less than a minute to order a meal. The food is delivered to his computer station 10 minutes later, where he eats it without interrupting his game. (Xu Zhipeng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).
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  • Shoppers and tourists mingle on the busy Nanjing road in Shanghai, China.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, enjoys her lunch at Circusworld Acrobat Center's cafeteria in Shanghai, China. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, enjoys lunch at the Circusworld Acrobat Center's cafeteria in Shanghai, China. (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Cao Xiaoli, a professional acrobat, practices alongside members of her troupe at Shanghai Circus World in Shanghai, China.  (Featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her day's worth of food on a typical day in June was 1700 kcals.  She is 16 years of age; 5 feet, 2 inches tall; and 99 pounds.  Cao Xiaoli lives in  a room with nine other girls. She started her career as a child, performing with a regional troupe in her home province of Anhui. Now she practices five hours a day, attends school with the other members of her troupe, and performs seven days a week. She says what she likes best about being an acrobat is the crowd's reaction when she does something seemingly dangerous. MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Welder Huang Neng (top left) and his fellow workers rest in the living quarters of a construction company in the fast-growing Pudong area of Shanghai, China. (Huang Neng is featured in the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets).  Living quarters and food services are on site, and at least 10 workers share one room. In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
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  • Workers buy food from a company cafeteria at a construction site in Shanghai, China. In China, migrant laborers often live directly on the job-site grounds of big construction projects and work 12-hour shifts, seven days a week. Alcohol is only tolerated in the company cafeteria after dinner.
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  • Lin Hui-wen, a street food vendor, with her typical day's worth of food at night market in Taipei, Taiwan. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Chen Zhen, a university student, with her typical day's worth of food on Nanjing East Road in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of her typical day's worth of food in June was 2600 kcals. She is 20 years of age; 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 106 pounds.  Although she doesn't care for noodles or rice, a special rice roll is her favorite snack: black glutinous rice wrapped around youtiao (fried bread), pickled vegetables, mustard greens, and flosslike threads of dried pork. Zhen and her friends eat at KFC about three times a week, something they couldn't afford without the company's coupons. Meanwhile, her father and grandparents, who live in a tiny apartment in northeast Shanghai, go without meat during the week so they can afford to share a special meal with Zhen on her weekend visits.  MODEL RELEASED.
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  • Xu Zhipeng, a freelance computer graphics artist and Internet gamer, with his typical day's worth of food in his rented chair at the Ming Wang Internet Café in Shanghai, China. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) The caloric value of his day's worth of food in June was 1600 kcals. He is 23 years of age; 6 feet, 2 inches and 157 pounds.  He lives at his computer station, day and night, sleeping there when he's tired and showering once a week at a friend's apartment. His longest continuous game lasted three days and nights. When he tires of gaming at the café he reads fantasy books. ?It's nice to rest your eyes on a book,? he says, even though he's reading it online. China has more than 300 million Internet users?a number close to the entire population of the United States.
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  • Taitung, Taiwan
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  • Taipei, Taiwan. Night market.
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  • Pool hall with some men sleeping on the tables. Guilin, China.
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  • Ming Wang Internet cafe in Shanghai, China, where extreme gamer Xu Zhipeng rents a chair for six months at a time and continuously plays games. (From the book What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets.) His longest continuous game lasted three days and nights. China has more than 300 million Internet users?a number close to the entire population of the United States.
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  • People huddle under umbrellas on a rainy evening in Shanghai, China.
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  • A group of Tibetan nomads show off their satellite dish outside the handmade yak-wool tents where they make their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The satellite dish was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • A solar panel and satellite dish are seen outside the handmade yak-wool tents Tibetan nomadic herders make their home in spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The satellite dish was provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • A Tibetan nomad walks outside one of the handmade yak wool tents that serves as a home to nomads during spring and summer in the Tibetan Plateau. The satellite dish and solar panel were provided by China's central government; along with a solar battery charger, a truck battery, and a TV so the nomads can watch Chinese broadcasts and learn the Chinese language; an attempt, some say, to assimilate indigenous Tibetans.
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  • Scorpions swarming at the Ru Yang Boda Scorpion Breeding Company, a new business in China's burgeoning market economy in Luo Yang, China. Scorpions in China are useful as both food and traditional Chinese medicine. Scorpions are in such demand that they are raised domestically (ranch style) by Chinese entrepreneurs. The Boda ranch's thirty employees are raising more than three million scorpions for public consumption in a football field-sized brick building. Image from the book project Man Eating Bugs: The Art and Science of Eating Insects.
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