http://picturechina.net Tue, 24 Jun 2008 17:48:38 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Picture China is a photographic journey through contemporary China. From the teeming metropolises of the east coast to the rural villages of the interior to the lofty Tibetan plateau, New York City based photographer Dan Eckstein traveled 10,000km over the course of eight weeks to document this rapidly changing country. ... http://picturechina.net/2006/11/23/picture-china/ The Tibetan countryside is one of the most beautiful areas of China. Surrounded by awe-inspiring mountains and dotted with monasteries and holy lakes, it is in the rural areas that the Tibetan culture remains most intact. Unfortunately, rural Tibet is also among the poorest areas of China with lower ... http://picturechina.net/2006/11/21/rural-tibet/ From the lofty peaks of the Himalayas to the sands of the Gobi desert, China’s landscape is extremely varied and has played an integral role in shaping the country. The natural environment has provided inspiration for artists, created boundaries between ethnic groups and, more recently, provided the natural ... http://picturechina.net/2006/11/19/landscape/ Religion has always been an important part of Chinese life. China’s native religions of Confucianism and Taoism have been practiced for thousands of years and Buddhism was introduced from India during the Tang Dynasty (618-906 AD). Christianity and Islam were brought to China via the Silk ... http://picturechina.net/2006/11/17/religion/ The Han ethnic group, known to most simply as “Chinese”, represents ninety-two percent of China’s people and has long dominated the country. Often at the impetus of the Chinese government, Han migrants have spread throughout the country to areas that have long been inhabited mostly by smaller ethnic ... http://picturechina.net/2006/11/15/han-migration/ Over the past few decades, China’s tourism industry has gone from almost nothing to become the largest domestic market in the world. As a result of the new disposable income being earned by China’s urbanites and eased restrictions on movement by the government, historic sights all over the country have ... http://picturechina.net/2006/11/13/tourism/ Lhasa is the capitol of China’s Tibetan Autonomous Region and the epicenter of the Tibetan cultural world. Situated at 3700 meters in a valley surrounded by jagged snow-capped mountains, it is a place that is both beautiful and tragic. Once the home of the Dalai Lamas and the center of ... http://picturechina.net/2006/11/11/lhasa/ Tibet has long been a place shrouded in mystery, in large part due to the difficulty associated with reaching it. Located on a plateau at 4500 meters and surrounded on all sides by imposing mountain ranges, until the turn of the 20th century, ... http://picturechina.net/2006/11/09/qinghai-tibet-railway/ Up until the Communist Revolution, Chinese women occupied the bottom rung of the social ladder. Undesirable from birth, women were treated much like property, first by their fathers and then by their husbands. Women were forced into arranged marriages and were not entitled to divorce or to own property. In the ... http://picturechina.net/2006/11/07/women-in-china/ The streets of China’s cities and towns are filled with all manner of vehicles both large and small, from hand-pulled rickshaws to luxury SUVs. Only a decade ago the bicycle was the preferred method of urban transportation but it is rapidly being faded out in favor of the automobile. ... http://picturechina.net/2006/11/05/transportation/