There is an interesting article on the BBC website, featuring a photographer who has travelled around China convincing people to be photographed outside their houses along with all their worldly possessions. There's a real mix of photos from herdsman outside their yurt tents who own next to nothing, through to fairly rich Beijing residents with flat screen TV and computer games. Click here to see the whole article.
Back in the 1960s, the "four big things" which every Chinese family aspired to own were a bicycle, a wristwatch, a radio and a sewing machine. By the 1990s the dreams had moved on to things like televisions, fridges, cell phones and computers. Now it's more like cars, ipads, foreign holidays and smart phones. How times change.
Back in the 1960s, the "four big things" which every Chinese family aspired to own were a bicycle, a wristwatch, a radio and a sewing machine. By the 1990s the dreams had moved on to things like televisions, fridges, cell phones and computers. Now it's more like cars, ipads, foreign holidays and smart phones. How times change.
