Melon carts in Yangzhou

3-wheeled melon truck in Yangzhou

Street shops and cardplayers in Rugao

Motorcycle repair shop in Yangzhou

Knife shop in Yangzhou's knife district

Grandmothers playing Mahjong in Yangzhou

Bike transport of styrofoam in Yangzhou

Bike transport of construction items in Yangzhou

Bike carts in Nanjing

Noodles drying in sun in Yangzhou

Choosing lotus pod snacks in Yangzhou

Chop stand in Beijing antique market

School supply shop for locals in Yangzhou

Tourist shop in Yangzhou

Street scene in Nanjing

Find the baby in Nantong signs

Beijing night market

Beijing supermarket

Yangzhou department store

Red and white wedding gowns, East and West

...or just West (for wedding photos)

Yangzhou traffic turnabout

Yangzhou street park

Nuclear towers near Yangzhou school

Oil pipeline construction at Rugao Harbor

Guard doing calisthenics at Guilin Station

Doting dad snaps photo in Beijing

Shanghai street sign

Shanghai airport garden, parking, and clothesline

The Man Who Changed China:
This biography of Jiang Zemin, China's president from 1993 to 2003, was on sale in China in August, 2005. Jiang Zemin led China following Deng Xiaoping and before Hu Jintao. Here is an excerpt from Publishers Weekly review of the book:

"This biography tries to counter the Western perception of Jiang Zemin (b. 1926) as a dictator of Communist China and emphasizes instead how far Chinese leadership has come since the days of Mao Zedong and Deng Xiaoping. A mild-mannered but patriotic grassroots organizer of protests during the Japanese occupation, Jiang matured into a good-natured technocrat who was, according to the author (host of PBS's series Closer to Truth and a former adviser to the Chinese government), without greater political ambition while serving as mayor of Shanghai. But he avoided political pitfalls in his dealings with student protesters in Shanghai in the period leading to the Tiananmen Square massacre—dealings Kuhn tries to portray as firm but not unkind. As China's head of state from 1993 to 2003, Jiang was, in Kuhn's view, a visionary who put a new face on China through his love of science and technology as well as a series of important foreign policy encounters; the author emphasizes Jiang's tension-fraught relationship with the Western press, his quirky style of winning over foreign leaders through bursting into song and his support of America's war on terror."