the generation responsibility

Posted on April 30, 2015May 1, 2015 Posted in b&w, black&white, children, China, old man, portraitTagged alley, black and white, blackandwhite, bw, care, children, China, Honghe, life, man, modernizationLeave a comment

What strikes me again and again here in China is that the elderly care very touching for their grandchildren.
The downside of this is that many children have to grow up without their parents who work as migrant workers somewhere unreachable far away. What it will have for consequences shows only within a couple of years when the children have grown-up and have children themselves.

Where is God?

Posted on February 4, 2015 Posted in ShanghaiTagged China, demolition, graffiti, modernization, old street, old town, shanghai, Shi ZhengLeave a comment

Even in the so-called atheistic Peoples Republic of China more and more people ask this question. Within weeks, after the government decides not to extend any renting of Lilongs, people stand in front of their demolished houses. Some lived there their whole life, this can be easily 60 years. Of course they get a compensation but new apartments are expensive and far away from the place they used to live. They have to leave behind an intact community and very often their life-sustaining small businesses. They have to arrange with unknown neighbours and a soulless high-rise building.