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  • Icy winds blow snow clouds blow over the jagged ridges of the South Chilkat Mountains that rise above Southeast Alaska's coast. Weather makes aerial photography a challenge as strong gusting winds force small float planes to land.
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  • A bride in a white dress tosses confetti at a mass wedding at the Great Wall of China.
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  • A young woman shops at the Carrefours Department Store.
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  • A family eats together in the home they all share.
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  • An illegal large pet dog exercises on a treadmill at a pet spa.
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  • A young woman sits on a barstool in a crowded bar in Guangzhou.
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  • A pet lover with her dogs and friends.
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  • Kids doing a fashion shoot in a new unfinished mall in Nanjing.
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  • Models on a cattle call fixing their make up.
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  • A mass wedding at the Great Wall of China.
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  • A young woman with a camera inside a shopping mall.
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  • A young fashion designer in her studio and shop.
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  • Elysee, owner and designer of Zemo Elysee fashion shop with models.
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  • A pet lover grooms one of her dogs and sits in her apartment with a friend.
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  • Young people enjoying drinks and conversation in a crowded bar.
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  • A two generation family in their living room.
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  • Kids doing a fashion shoot in a new unfinished mall in Nanjing.
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  • A fashionable, young woman texts while sitting in a bar in Beijing. The potential spending power of Chinese women may be enormous in the next decade according to MasterCard International estimates. The total purchasing power of Chinese women living on their own or in married households with no children is likely to rise.
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  • A personal trainer helps a client at the Ozone Fitness Club.
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  • Students in their dorm room at Shanghai's Jiao Tong University.
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  • A young woman laughing on a street in the Chaoyang district.
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  • Trying on clothes and jewelry for an accessory photo shoot.
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  • A man points his camera as a woman checks her cell phone on a busy street in Guangzhou.
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  • A young woman fluffs a pillow in her apartment.
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  • An illegal large pet dog exercises on a treadmill at a pet spa.
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  • Rachel is a “headhunter” for the Comfort Class. She is single and lives at home with her parents who were part of one of the worst social experiments in history. Mao unified the country, but then was responsible for the Great Leap Forward, the Cultural Revolution, countless famines. <br />
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Then, Deng proclaimed, “To get rich is glorious” and opened the flood gates to the “Special Economic Zone” cities on the south coast, creating the largest peacetime human migration in history. Many 20-somethings say that Tiananmen Square had to be put down or it would have hurt Deng’s economic plans and they would not have their nice apartments with flat screens in every room.
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  • A young woman sits at a table admiring her  latte at Starbucks in Guangzhou.<br />
Starbucks currently operate more than 6,000 stores in over 230 cities in the Chinese mainland, employing more than 60,000 partners.
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  • A young woman looks at a menu at a restaurant.
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  • Two models sleep on the floor with their heads on a pillow before appearing at a fashion show at a bar venue.
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  • A young woman in a bar snaps a photo with her camera.
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  • Beijing at the time of this photo had a "one dog policy." The dog on the treadmill is a Siberian Husky and Beijing police cracked down on large dog ownership. This couple is training their pet on their friend’s treadmill because they fear if they take the dog outside for a walk, they risk having it beaten to death in front of them by a Beijing policeman. <br />
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Owners of big dogs (over 35cm) that live within the sixth ring in Beijing have an illegal pet. Many have purchased treadmills after the crackdown began when pets were pulled out of the hands of their crying owners. A group protested in front of the zoo because there was suspicion that some of the dogs were being fed to the tigers. The activists claim dog owners tried to take policemen to dinner to bribe them, but it did not work. They say the policemen sold some of the nice animals and sent the rest to the zoo.
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  • A young woman looking at her cell phone at the Baby Face Club.
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  • Portrait of a young woman at the Baby Face Club.
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  • A young woman eating in a communal dining room.
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  • Models primp styling their hair and touching up makeup before appearing at a fashion show at a bar venue.
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  • A woman talking on a cell phone on a city street at night.
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  • A portrait of a young Chinese woman.
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  • Photographers capture photos of a model looking through a car window at an automobile exhibition.
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  • A young woman turns on a light in her apartment.
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  • A young woman sucks on a straw at a Starbucks cafe.
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  • A young woman shops for shoes.
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  • Street lights at night illuminate a couple making a wedding photo on a bridge with the Pudong skyline in the background.
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  • A young woman walking in the lobby of a nightclub.
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  • A model at the 3rd China International Automobile Exhibition.
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  • A young woman shops for shoes.
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  • Three generations play in the home they share. Three young boy lies on the floor mesmerized by a toy train on a wooden track while two women, his mother an grandmother, watch him play.
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  • Kids doing a fashion shoot in a new unfinished mall in Nanjing.
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  • A pet poodle gets a bath at a pet spa.
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  • A portrait of a young Chinese woman eating with chopsticks.
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  • A young woman with a camera in a pedestrian shopping area.
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  • A parent peers through a window keeping a close eye through the window where a musician plays a guitar to a yawning child.
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  • A model dressed in white shorts and tall boots sits on a hood of a car while a man admires the headlight at China (Guangzhou) International Automobile Exhibition. It began in 2003 and is one of the largest international auto shows in China. <br />
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This event has an exhibition ground measuring 85,000 square meters and it filled eight exhibition halls. Over 370 exhibitors from 20 other countries and regions, took part in this exhibition, which was covered by more than 1,600 news reporters representing upwards of 510 TV and radio stations, newspapers, magazines, and online media at home and abroad. 120,000 people attended.
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  • Drinks at a bar.
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  • A young woman adjusts her hair and makeup on the street in Guangzhou while looking into a compact mirror.
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  • A young woman eating Wonton soup.
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  • Rose Wedding Festival couples in a motorcade to Century Park.
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  • A photographer's self portrait with a young woman in an elevator.
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  • A young woman talking on a cell phone on a street at night.
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  • Kids doing a fashion shoot in a new unfinished mall in Nanjing.
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  • A woman stands in a basketball court lined with Nike ads.
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  • A fashion designer's workshop.
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  • A pet poodle gets a bath at a pet spa.
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  • A young woman smiles with her eyes from a partially open car window.
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  • A child plays the piano while a woman instructs in the living room of an apartment.<br />
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From Leslie Chang’s story that accompanied these photographs in National Geographic Magazine:<br />
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By the time she was ten, Bella lived a life that was rich with possibility and as regimented as a drill sergeant’s. After school she did homework unsupervised until her parents got home. Then came dinner, bath, piano practice. Sometimes she was permitted television, but only the news. On Saturdays she took a private essay class followed by Math Olympics, and on Sundays a prep class for the middle-school entrance exam and piano lessons. The best moment of the week was Friday afternoon, when school let out early. Bella might take a deep breath and look around, like a man who discovers a glimpse of blue sky from the confines of the prison yard.
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  • A photographer leans in to capture couples in formal, bridal costumes and red balloons at a mass wedding at the Great Wall of China.
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  • A fish tank separates patrons from the kitchen at a restaurant on East Nanjing Road | Shanghai, China
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  • A crowd of people in a walkway.
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  • The 3rd China International Automobile Exhibition.
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  • Taku Glacier is a tidewater glacier and the largest in the Juneau Icefield. Long an anomaly among  glaciers, it was advancing but in recent years has started to succumb to climate change and retreat. The blue textured ribbon of ice is mixed with sediment with the terminus of the Taku River.
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  • A young woman in the food court of a shopping mall.
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  • A board where singles post their information to find a partner.
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  • A mass wedding at the Great Wall of China.
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  • A bride at the shopping mall.
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  • Young kids learning English in preschool.
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  • Nearly a million cruise ship passengers visit Alaska, sometimes doubling a town’s population on a summer day. As many as six cruise ships make daily stops in Ketchikan - and as many as 500 a year - bringing tourists on the Inside Passage. Viewed from the air when landing a float plane, the ship is docked near sunset.<br />
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Tourism is Southeast Alaska’s fastest growing industry. Travelers can shop for Native art and souvenirs or diamonds in one of many jewelry stores along what was a former logging town.
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  • An English teacher presents the letter F to preschool children in a classroom. They watch and mimic the gesture.
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  • Models at a fashion show.
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  • A woman with a red flag is hoisted above a crowd at the Midi Festival.
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  • A bellhop at a boutique hotel.
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  • A dragon dance for promotional purposes on East Nanjing Road.
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  • Pedestrians walk past a movie theater.
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  • A couple on a bench with a lake view in front of a replica of the Venus de Milo at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.
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  • Pedestrians in a shopping area.
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  • Brides line up for the Rose Wedding Festival, a mass marriage.
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  • Some of the 70 couples in the Rose Wedding Festival, a mass marriage.
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  • A teenage girl checks her cell phone commuting to school in a car.
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  • Reflection in the mirror of a teenage schoolgirl sitting behind her father in a car.
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  • Two men sit outside a shop on a street that is known for wedding attire where dresses at the doorway lure shoppers inside.  <br />
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Migrant workers in China are mostly people from impoverished regions who move to more urban and prosperous coastal regions in search of work. According to Chinese government statistics, the current number of migrant workers in China is estimated at over 120 million. China is experiencing the largest mass migration of people from the countryside to the city in history with an estimated 400 million by 2025. Many are farmers and farm workers made obsolete by modern farming practices and factory workers who have been laid off from inefficient state-run factories.
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  • A man is drapes in a cape while he gets a haircut from his daughter-in-law in their apartment.
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  • Fixing eyelashes at the Shenzhen Fashion Show at a Convention Center.
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  • Kids posing with people in Cultural Revolution costumes at a car show.
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  • A woman appears lost in thought at the Armani Club is in the Liu lin Road area of Shanghai that attracts  young people to the scene.
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  • Wilderness islands off Prince of Wales Island at the Dixon Entrance of the Inside Passage seen in an aerial view.<br />
Tongass National Forest covers 16.7 million acres stretching over mountains, bays, glaciers, 1,000 islands, 18,000 miles of coastline, and almost all of mainland Southeast Alaska. Approximately 94% of Southeast Alaska is federally managed lands, and of that, 60% is set aside as Congressionally-designated Wilderness, National Parks, and National Monuments.
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  • Tracy Arm Fjord is formed by a retreating glacier melting between granite walls. Sawyer Glacier calves into the fjord in the heart of the Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness seen from the air in Southeast Alaska.
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  • Crisp winter air clears over freshly snow-dusted trees in Tongass National Forest looking across the Icy Strait in the Inside Passage toward Southeast Alaska’s Chilkat Mountain Range. The region is known for it’s harsh winds and rugged landscape as well as it’s beauty that is seen in this aerial.<br />
Chilkat, in the native Tlingit language, means “storage container for salmon.” The name was given because of warm springs that keep the Chilkat River from freezing during the winter as it flows through the mountain range, thus allowing salmon to spawn late in the season, and creating safe “storage.”
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  • A family siting in the kitchen of their apartment has a complicated family life. The grandparents were farmers and lost the land and their occupations to development. If the grandparents did not have a child they would be homeless. Ironically, the same development that took his home now supports their daughter, Ding, who works in the industrial park occupying the land that was once the father’s farm.
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  • Models at a fashion show wear form fitting red dresses backstage.
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  • Employees at technology company eyou.com use a climbing wall embedded partially into the wall of the conference room creating a faux-silicon-valley atmosphere. <br />
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Eyou is an international mobile game publisher founded in Singapore that has partnered with multinational corporations-namely Facebook, Google, Unity and Twitter.
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  • A personal trainer helps a client at the Ozone Fitness Club.
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  • A lone office denizen at night.
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