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  • Book cover: China [sur]real by Mark Henley.A photographic essay. Published by Timezone8..With an Introduction by Ed Lanfranco..ISBN10 988-99265-6-3.ISBN13 978-988-99265-6-4

  • Advertising hoarding for a real estate development in China's richest city with slogan suggestive of new individualism: "You are Center"..From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Commuters on their way to work on a crowded city bus with downtown city skyscrapers reflected in the window...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley....

  • Taxi driver stuck in a rush hour traffic jam on Jiangguomen Wai...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Laundry drying in an old quarter scheduled for demolition in Pudong District, close to China's tallest building, the 88-storey Jin Mao Tower..From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Protest against the destruction of old Beijing. Graffiti on hutong housing being knocked down for new construction in the build-up to the Olympic Games, showing police, thugs and a family member chasing others from their home, surrounded by the Yuan symbol (the Chinese currency). The other characters read: "People's Execution" a clever and pointed play on words, as it sounds like "People's Money" or Renmin Bi - the official name for the currency. ..From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Migrant labourers from Henan Province at work on a downtown construction site, in a pollution haze that closed the airport. The site was formerly occupied by hutong housing...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Pollution. Environment. Tractor driver in the Heng Shan mountains, going home after delivering a load of coal to a nearby town...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Amused migrant workers waiting for a minibus in the city's devlopment zone, which may be 50 km from the city centre, but a draw for inland people in search of work...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley...

  • Labourers having dinner at a cheap restaurant, with a temporary, but dramatic view of this rapidly changing in-land metropolis high up on the Yangtze River, upstream from the Three Gorges Dam. ..From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Restaurant's display window, of prepared dishes in front of a blown-up photo of when it was visited by President Clinton...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Drinking beer direct from pitchers in the main hall of the annual Tsingtao beer festival. The festival started in 1991, whilst the beer itself dates back to 1903 when the city was under German control...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Porters waiting for the airport bus to arrive outside the city offices of a regional airline, with bamboo shoulder poles for carrying passenger baggage, another layer of service industry from the airline crew pictured in the advertising behind them...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Swapping plough for lawn mower, a migrant at work by the skyscrapers of Pudong, the city's new financial district. The jacket still bears its sleeve label - a sign of style...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Temporary job culture. Young woman taking a break from her costume, promoting a shop in the city centre...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley...

  • Illegal street trader keeping an eye out for the police, beneath a poster using Chinese actress Gong Li...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • A local photographer touting for business showing his book of Chinese tourists posing for souvenir photos at the Yungang Caves in front of a 14m high Buddha statue...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Ducks hanging out in an alley ready for a restaurant's oven...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Migrant woman at work cleaning the stepped mirrored exterior of a contsruction site in the city centre...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Eyes of advertising in a shop window (of French cosmetics brand Lancome) and reflection of cables and surveillance cameras on the street...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Environment. Factory without chimney spewing acrid pollution into the atmosphere in an industrial northern quarter of the city...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Cyclists using highway still under construction in the rapidly developing Special Economic Zone - this is Marlboro Country...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Abandoned toilet on the rooftop of a downtown apartment building, with office towers behind...Shenzhen, Guangdong 2004..China [sur]real¬©Mark Henley

  • Infrastructure: labourers on bridge construction...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Father and young son passing behind the luxury housing and office development SOHO, on a day heavy with pollution...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Looking to the east from Gang Tie Dajie at four-storey apartment buildings at dusk - housing blocks for industrial workers on the edge of the city...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Looking to the west along Gang Tie Dajie at massed ranks of industrial workers cycling home at the end of day shift, at polluting Iron & Steel works..From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Saturday morning on a downtown beach facing onto the Yellow Sea during the city's annual beer festival...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Man on his phone at the end of a business meeting, with the city centre behind...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley.......

  • A village enterprise. Mao Zedong statue makers a few kilometres from his birth place...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Old people exercising as a group on Zhongshan Square, dominated by a 1969 statue topped by Mao Zedong. ..From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Religion. Superstition. Gender imbalance. Stall selling pink plastic baby boys (and a single girl at rear right) for fertility prayers at the tomb of Fuxi, mythic creator of the Chinese race. ..From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley...

  • Elephant ride fitted with a machine gun in a city children's park...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Migrant family from Henan Province living on land soon to be cleared for the 2008 Beijing Olympics...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Migrant worker sewing blond hair onto a doll in a Joint Venture toy factory, producing both for export and the Chinese market...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Young woman posing for her own souvenir photo taken by a hired beach photographer, at this resort on the Bohai Gulf. Once almost exclusively reserved for Party officials and foreign diplomats, it is now popular with the rising middle class of Beijing and Tianjin, a few hours away by train...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley...

  • Explicit dance perfromance on the bar top of an expensive Beijing nightclub, with watchful security guards to protect her in foreground...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • Transvestite performers about to go on stage in a downtown bar. The repertoire of these 'comrades' included old Communist songs. The bar closed several months later. ..From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley...

  • Wealth - distinctively dressed guest drinking prosecco at the exclusive prelaunch of a luxury Western cosmetics brand, at a five star hotel...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

  • A young woman dressed in Imperial-style costume for a souvenir photograph, passing behind a mirror in the Forbidden City (for checking make-up and costume), after the first snowfall of winter...From China [sur]real ¬© Mark Henley..

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