Your China Photos

Rice Field, Guizhou Province

Photograph by Alvin Cheah, My Shot

Rice field and houses of Dong people in Tang-an village of Guizhou Province, China

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Great Wall

Photograph by Cathrine Koester, My Shot

A fairy tale view from the Great Wall of China, February 2010

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Rice Terraces, Yunnan Province

Photograph by Priyanka Sah, My Shot

Yuanyang rice terraces in Yunnan Province, China, 1,200 years old

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Children, Sichuan Province

Photograph by Daniel Peters, My Shot

During a pit stop in Sichuan, China, curious kids came bounding across the field to me. I was midway through a 10,000-kilometer motorbike ride to Pakistan near the border with Tibet.

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Li River, Guilin

Photograph by Tatum Wulff, My Shot

Sunrise in Yangshuo, Guilin, China. Yangshuo, nestled on the banks of the Li River, is known for its spectacular limestone mountains. For centuries, painters, poets, and philosophers have been drawn to this majestic location.

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Bactrian Camels, Lake Karakul

Photograph by William Goldman, My Shot

In summer 2007 I journeyed through Xinjiang Province, around the Old Silk Road, going especially to the old Uygur towns. After Kashgar, I went to Lake Karakul, near the borders of Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Afghanistan. I stayed in Kyrgyz yurts, walking 30 kilometers though the desert to reach two tiny Kyrgyz villages. The lake is surrounded by snowy peaks and is very high, toward 6,000 meters. It is one of the most beautiful places I have ever been, though the people are poor.

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Potato Harvest, Yunnan Province

Photograph by XD Luo, My Shot

Farmers harvesting potatoes in the red soil of Wumeng region, Yunnan, southwest China

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Crop Terraces, Wumen

Photograph by XD Luo, My Shot

Farmers harvesting crops in red soil. The place is hidden in the mountainous Wumen region, some 180 kilometers north of Kunming, Yunnan, China.

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Grandmother, Xian

Photograph by Brianna Dougher, My Shot

This is a photo of a grandmother and her granddaughter in a tiny farming village in Xian, China. My family and I were traveling through China and came here to see a local performance. That evening, we walked around the narrow dirt streets of the village and every single family stepped outside of their home to say hello to us. The grandmother was obviously more excited about our presence than the little girl!

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River Rafts

Photograph by Courtney Canino, My Shot

This photo was taken in spring 2009 while I was in China. It is a beautiful contrast of the colors and people working. The colors of the umbrella pop against the dismal sky.

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Temple of Heaven, Beijing

Photograph by Douglas Bakshian, My Shot

Men dressed in historic Chinese imperial court garb wait ahead of a ceremony at the Temple of Heaven in Beijing.

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Hong Kong

Photograph by Brian Yen, My Shot

Working side by side on the streets of Hong Kong

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Street Vendor

Photograph by XD Luo, My Shot

A street vendor chats with a potential client by the sidewalk under an overpass. It's the epitome of the migrant worker's life in China's big cities. Behind the neon lights, lower class people struggle for bread in their own way. For this shot, what attracted me at first sight was their reflection in the rainwater.

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Souvenir Store

Photograph by Steve Ip, My Shot

Yunnan Province

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Children, Shangri-La

Photograph by Yiwen Ren, My Shot

This photo was taken on the Songzanlin-Chaitya square, Shangri-la, Yunnan Province, China. A father took his children to participate in the chaitya.

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Hong Kong

Photograph by XD Luo, My Shot

Shenzhen River, also called Sham Chun River, flowing southwest into Shenzhen Bay, serves as the natural border between Hong Kong and mainland China. In the city of Shenzhen, on one side of the river, construction has extended to the border, while the land remains unused in the Frontier Closed Area on the Hong Kong side. This shot was taken at the top of Shun Hing Square, the highest building in Shenzhen.

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Gadan Songzanlin Lamasery, Shangri-La

Photograph by Stephan Schwaabe, My Shot

Gadan Songzanlin Lamasery in Shangri-la, Yunnan Province, China. Set in a spring-green valley, the lamasery served to control the ancient trade route going north from China to the Himalaya.

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Shanghai at Night

Photograph by Yang Yang, My Shot

Shanghai, known as the Eastern Manhattan, is famous for its night view and architecture. Those skyscrapers landed on the east side of the Huangpu River, which flows through the city and divides it into halves. They are the symbol of the fast development of China. Every individual who sees this would be amazed by both the view and China's economic growth.

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Sai Kung Pier, Hong Kong

Photograph by Adrian Chan, My Shot

Tanks for keeping fresh seafood for seafood restaurants at Sai Kung Pier, Hong Kong

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Artisanal Dyes, Great Wall

Photograph by Jason Sawicki, My Shot

I took this photo browsing through an artist village near the Mutianyu section of the Great Wall of China. The colorful dyes shown are applied by hand to intricately designed copper vases.

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Opera Singers

Photograph by Brian Yen, My Shot

A group of traveling Chinese opera singers came to town. They set up a temporary theatre under a bridge with bamboo sticks. They slept under the stage and put on their makeup and costumes in a tiny area behind the stage. This group performs all over China, traveling from town to town, staying perhaps a week in each place, providing traditional entertainment that would otherwise be lost to television and the Internet.

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Miao New Year's Event

Photograph by Kenny Chu, My Shot

One of the New Year's celebration activities for the Miao nation

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Nathan Road

Photograph by Tobias Jaeger, My Shot

Hong Kong, China

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NanPu Bridge, Shanghai

Photograph by Lingda Jiang, My Shot

Night view of NanPu Bridge, Shanghai, China

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Young Buddhists

Photograph by HongMing Zhang, My Shot

Young Buddhists in flowering season, China

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Mingsha Mountain

Photograph by Yang Ting, My Shot

Taken at Mingsha Mountain in China. When the breeze blows, the wind speaks like old orchestral strings. The flag stick and the sand dunes matched.

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Sunset, Shanghai

Photograph by Staffan Holgersson, My Shot

Spectacular sunset behind the tall office towers of the Lujiazui financial district and the Hongkou district in Puxi, seen from the Shanghai World Financial Center, China's tallest building

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Koi Pond

Photograph by Ribeaut Yannick, My Shot

Red fish in a koi pond in Suzhou, China

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Farmer, Shandong Province

Photograph by Blaineb Barden, My Shot

Recently I was fortunate enough to visit China and live within Jinan for nearly a month. While visiting, I would often take motorcycle rides out of the city and into the country to see the real beauty of the area. While riding through some winding side roads we came across this farmer heading in from a long day in the field. As he walked expressionless toward me it made for a breathless composition telling me the story of his daily routine.

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Festival, Hong Kong

Photograph by Chacha Chan, My Shot

This picture was taken in Hong Kong on May 12, the birthday of Tam Kung. Tam Kung is a patron saint of seafarers. He brings security and happiness to all fishermen. His birthday festival is celebrated with considerable devotion and fanfare at the Tam Kung Temple in Shau Kei Wan on Hong Kong Island, which dates from 1905.

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Exercises, Hong Kong

Photograph by Brian Yen, My Shot

A little exercise, Hong Kong style, before work

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Hemu Village, Xinjiang

Photograph by Quincy Wei, My Shot

Hemu Village (Kanas, Xinjiang), ranked as one of the six most beautiful villages in China, is one of the only three remaining places where the Mongolian tribe Tuwa lives. The photo was taken at dawn after rain the previous night.

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Harbin Ice Festival

Photograph by Celia Stander, My Shot

Harbin, China

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Hot Air Balloon, Guilin

Photograph by Guillaume Jauernig, My Shot

I took this picture from an air balloon in Guilin, China.

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Great Wall

Photograph by James Manley, My Shot

A deserted section of the Great Wall of China

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Hotel Lobby, Shanghai

Photograph by Bevin Roue, My Shot

China loves setting records. The lobby of the Grand Hyatt in Shanghai is on the 53rd floor. It held the record for the highest lobby in the world until the Shanghai Park Hyatt eclipsed it. This is a view of the lobby from the observation floor on the 88th floor.

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Gobi Desert

Photograph by Thomas Adolphson, My Shot

While the orange "sand protection" booties might give away the fact that these are tourists visiting the Gobi desert near Dunhuang, China, the sight still gave me a sense of the Silk Road that passed through this area, carrying merchants, Marco Polo, and now, weekend vacationers from Shanghai and Beijing. There was a timelessness to the mighty dunes, the endless sky, and the wending caravans.

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Qixi Festival

Photograph by Jack Seaman, My Shot

Girls in Chinese traditional Hanfu clothing celebrate the Qixi Festival, the so-called Chinese Valentine's Day.

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Procession, Sichuan Province

Photograph by XD Luo, My Shot

Thousands of nuns' huts built in the river valley in Garze, Sichuan Province, China. We caught the annual Great Perfection ritual there by chance. In the early morning, red-robed nuns and monks were hurrying on their way to the event location on the other side of the river.

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Hakka Earth Building, Fujian Province

Photograph by XD Luo, My Shot

The traditional residential buildings in the western part of Fujian Province in southeast China, Hakka earth buildings, were added to the UNESCO World Heritage List. This is one of the out-of-use earth buildings in a remote village.

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Forbidden City, Beijing

Photograph by Ranggasatya Akbar, My Shot

Presenting another angle from a magnificent palace museum. It was the imperial palace during the Ming and Qing dynasties. In 1987, it was declared a World Heritage site.

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Fisherman, Fujian Province

Photograph by XD Luo, My Shot

A fisherman drags nets of oysters from the turbid river water on a breathless summer day. The shot was taken in the town of Quanzhou in China's Fujian Province in June 2010.

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Ducks, Guizhou Province

Photograph by Chan Johnny, My Shot

The people in Guizhou, China, hang their ducks in dragon boats to celebrate the Sisters Festival.

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Firecrackers, Dragon Boat Festival

Photograph by Yu Andy, My Shot

The dragon boat festival is a tradition in China. The purpose is to commemorate Qu Yuan's death. In Guangzhou, people celebrate this festival by riding the dragon boat and setting off firecrackers. The more the firecrackers, the more the fortunes and blessings.

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Candlelight Vigil, Victoria Park

Photograph by Timothy Martin, My Shot

Candlelight vigil held in Hong Kong's Victoria Park on the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre

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Oil Lamps

Photograph by Linan An, My Shot

On the Chinese Lunar New Year's Eve, a Buddhist is filling up an oil lamp. Many pilgrims go to the temple for an invocation of divine blessing on the first day of the Chinese Lunar Year. Every oil lamp has its own special meaning.

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Hong Kong

Photograph by Sarah Hilzinger, My Shot

A boy standing on the shores of Hong Kong Island

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Aberdeen Cemetery, Hong Kong

Photograph by Rowan Bestmann, My Shot

Aberdeen Cemetery hugs the hillsides, Hong Kong

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Eclipse Viewing, Yunnan Province

Photograph by Meng Chen, My Shot

July 22, 9:15 a.m. Beijing time. The sky started to turn light again as the moon unveiled the sun after four minutes of near darkness. Three PRC soldiers stand at an observation deck meant for viewing the mountains near Shangri-la, Yunnan Province. Instead, one gazes at the waning eclipse, his jaw agape and eyes covered by 3-D goggles for partial protection from the sun's rays. His friend hurriedly flips his cell phone to camera mode as another soldier waits anxiously for his turn at the goggles.

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