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Thank you Popeye. Thursday is ending well now.......
Chinese Daily Photos, 2011 to 2019!
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Thank you Popeye. Thursday is ending well now.......
Miragedriver
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An aerial photo of the patchwork of fields in Xiangcheng County of southwest China's Sichuan Province
Picture: Barcroft Media
Children pose for a graduation photo at Beibei District Experimental Kindergarten in Chongqing, southwest China
Picture: Barcroft Media
Members of the Hunan Provincial Armed Police Force take part in an exercise drill
Picture: Getty Images
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Miragedriver
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Ok I am hungry now.
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Lightning strikes over buildings in Anshun, Guizhou province, China
Picture: REUTERS
Participants compete in a dragon boat race ahead of the Dragon Boat Festival in Taipei, Taiwan. The festival commemorates the death of Chinese patriotic poet Qu Yuan, who drowned himself in 277 B.C. on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month to protest against the corrupt government of his time. This year's Dragon Boat Festival falls on June 20.
Picture: REUTERS/Pichi Chuang
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This Is The Last Generation Of Chinese Women To Endure The Painful Tradition Of Foot Binding
Foot binding, the practice of crushing young women’s feet into tiny “lotus” feet, was widespread in China for nearly a thousand years.
Long seen as a crucial way for women to elevate their status and wealth, the practice . In recent decades, foot binding has been all but eliminated thanks to strict enforcement by the Communist Party.
Despite the ban, some women continued to bind their feet in secret. These women, mostly hidden or forgotten in tiny Chinese villages, are the last remaining survivors of the practice.
British photographer has spent the last eight years traveling all over the Chinese countryside searching for these remaining women with bound feet. Despite the stigmas that currently surround foot binding, the women that Farrell met openly showed their "lotus" feet to her and revealed their stories.
WARNING: These photos may be upsetting to some.
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Foot binding, the practice of crushing young women’s feet into tiny “lotus” feet, was widespread in China for nearly a thousand years.
Long seen as a crucial way for women to elevate their status and wealth, the practice . In recent decades, foot binding has been all but eliminated thanks to strict enforcement by the Communist Party.
Despite the ban, some women continued to bind their feet in secret. These women, mostly hidden or forgotten in tiny Chinese villages, are the last remaining survivors of the practice.
British photographer has spent the last eight years traveling all over the Chinese countryside searching for these remaining women with bound feet. Despite the stigmas that currently surround foot binding, the women that Farrell met openly showed their "lotus" feet to her and revealed their stories.
WARNING: These photos may be upsetting to some.
Link:
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SinoSoldier
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That must've been traumatic and frightening; I hope everybody is ok.
Well, the article says,
"The accident, which killed one person and injured four others, happened at 3:40 a.m. on June 19 in Heyuan City when a bridge ruptured with four heavy trucks on it."
Luckily it was very early in the morning and it looks like the only vehicles were those big trucks. Those drivers were more protected, and there were no smaller vehicles which could easily have been crushed.
Still, one was killed and four injured. Condolences to the dead and prayers for a speedy recovery to the injured.
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