Jingdezhen women

Jingdezhen women, originally uploaded by www.nataliebehring.com.

Women walk down a Jingdezhen street June 27, 2006. State media has reported that China's population will peak at 1.5 billion by the mid-2030s, and its sex ratio will remain skewed at 119 boys for every 100 girls. The internationally recognised normal ratio is 103 to 107 of one sex to 100 of the other.

eating jiaozi

eating jiaozi, originally uploaded by www.nataliebehring.com.

I love the look on this kids face - he is deciding, "should i eat my dinner or freak out about the laowai taking my picture?"

Beijing Night Market Slideshow

An Older Profession

An Older Profession, originally uploaded by http://www.flickr.com/people/chinapix/.

Women entertain guests at a new, supposedly high-class night club in a five star hotel in Beijing. Prostitution is quickly growing into a national problem for China, and it is increasing the spread of AIDS and other sexually communicable diseases

forbidden city slide show

South Koreans Enjoying a meal of Whale Meat

050403nbb05, originally uploaded by www.nataliebehring.com.

Pusan, South Korea, 3 April 2005 - A South Korean couple enjoy a whale meat snack at a market in Pusan South Korea April 3, 2005. While Korea has no official whaling programme, if a whale or dolphin is found dead in a fishing net, it can be sold on the open market for huge prices - in 2004 the average price paid for a mature minke whale was US$100 000. It is perhaps no coincidence therefore, that Korea has some of the highest cetacean bycatch incidents in the world, second only to Japan. Greenpeace/Photo by Natalie Behring

Fresh Scorpion Kebab

Fresh Scorpion Kebab, originally uploaded by www.nataliebehring.com.

A tray of fresh scorpion kebabs for sale in Beijing's Dong Hua Men Night Market in the city center May 10, 2006. Every evening dozens of vendors set up stalls along the road and sell traditional snacks ranging from simple noodles and local specialties to more exotic treats like entrails reptiles and insect kebabs.

dragon

dragon, originally uploaded by www.nataliebehring.com.

Detail in the Forbidden City.

Cancer Village 8

Cancer Village 8, originally uploaded by http://www.flickr.com/people/chinapix/.

Ms. Ji Shaolian weeps for the recent death her husband as she holds his portrait in the polluted village of Liu Kuai Zhuang. Her husband died of lung cancer at 58. Locals say over 200 residents in the two villages have been diagnosed with diseases including bone, lung, liver and breast cancers, while a handful of children are suffering from leukemia. A report on the People's Daily website, quoting Tianjin health authorities, said the rates of cancer in Liukuaizhuang and Xiditou were 1,313 and 2,032 per 100,000 people, way above the national average of 70 per 100,000 people.

Read Richard Spencer's story at The Telegraph http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2006/05/31/wchina31.xml&sSheet=/news/2006/05/31/ixnews.htm

Dalian Shipyard

Dalian Shipyard, originally uploaded by www.nataliebehring.com.

Chinese ship yard workers paint the seams of steel on the hull or a large ship under construction in the Dalian Ship Yard in China's northeast Liaoning Province May 30, 2006.