Talk Time

Talk Time

This is one of my favorite images from our 2008 trip to China.  Its not because it is a technically great image, but that it represents part of how China had changed so much since our previous trip in 1987.

Here we have a modern girl riding her electric scooter and talking on her mobile phone.  In 1987 she would not have had either of these possessions, would probably have been riding a bicycle at best, and been wearing a green “Mao” uniform.  The bridge across the shipping canal beside the Gezhou Dam would not have been built, nor the dam itself which was a precursor to the Three Gorges Dam further up the Yangtze River.