What shop is that?

How difficult is it to exist in China without understanding Chinese? Earlier I promised to post a range of photos showing shop fronts. I defy anyone who has no Chinese to identify these shops. Hint: most of them are restaurants and liquor/gift stores. And one is a foot massage shop - look for the feet!

Photos the Chinese do not see

This photo was on the front page of the International Herald Tribune, the first image I saw as I was stepping onto the plane leaving China. "Jiang Guohua, the Communist Party boss of Mianzhu, pleading for an end to the protest by parents whose children were killed in a school collapse during the earthquake". Source: Shiho Fukada, for the New York Times.