http://daneckstein.com/picturechina Thu, 28 Jan 2010 16:21:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Picture China is a photographic journey through contemporary China. From the teeming metropolises of the east coast to the rural villages of the interior to the lofty Tibetan plateau, New York City based photographer Dan Eckstein traveled 10,000km over the course of eight weeks to document this rapidly changing country. ... http://daneckstein.com/picturechina/2006/09/01/picture-china/ I thought it would be fitting for the first post of this project to focus on what many people consider to be the heart of China- Tiananmen Square. This massive expanse of concrete is one of the world’s biggest public spaces and lies at the geographic center of Beijing. It ... http://daneckstein.com/picturechina/2006/09/24/tiananmen-square/ Beijing’s Hutong neighborhoods are some of the liveliest and most interesting areas of the city to explore. Made up of one-story brick and wood houses connected by winding alleyways, the layout of these neighborhoods has changed little in the past thousand years. The Hutongs are constantly buzzing with activity. Old men ... http://daneckstein.com/picturechina/2006/09/25/hutongs/ It can sometimes feel that all of Beijing is one giant construction site. Cranes dot the skyline, scaffolding covers whole blocks of buildings and you cannot walk far without navigating around a group of construction workers digging up the street. In an effort to show the world a ... http://daneckstein.com/picturechina/2006/09/27/under-construction/ The Dashanzi Art District (aka Factory 798) is a huge complex of factories in the northeast outskirts of Beijing. The buildings where built in the 1950's in the Bauhaus style in cooperation with East Germany and used to produce electronic components for the Chinese military. After the factories fell ... http://daneckstein.com/picturechina/2006/09/28/factory-798/ A walk through Beijing’s streets reveals the strange mix of extremes that exist in contemporary China. Newfound affluence contrasts with grinding poverty, gleaming residential towers rise above crumbling Hutongs and pockets of bohemians exist among stoic young soldiers marching in formation through the city streets. While it would be ... http://daneckstein.com/picturechina/2006/09/29/beijing-street-life/ The Pudong New District is located across the Huangpu River from Shanghai proper and is widely considered to be the financial and commercial center of China. The area is home to thousands of multi-national companies and has come to represent Shanghai’s ascent to the premier business city in China, if ... http://daneckstein.com/picturechina/2006/09/30/pudong/ Shanghai’s “Old City” is a four square kilometer section in the south of the metropolis that has yet to succumb to the gentrification and rebuilding which has taken place throughout the rest of the city. This area was the site of the original walled city of the 11th Century and ... http://daneckstein.com/picturechina/2006/10/02/old-shanghai/ A new generation of young Chinese are growing up in a radically different environment than their parents and grandparents. While only a few generations before most people dressed in simple Communist approved attire, young Shanghaiese have taken to the styles of Japan, Korea and the West. In few places are ... http://daneckstein.com/picturechina/2006/10/03/shanghai-fashion/ The Huangpu River runs through the heart of Shanghai dividing the Pudong New Area from the rest of the city and connecting to the Yangzi 30km upstream as both rivers empty into the East China Sea. The river is one of China's major shipping ... http://daneckstein.com/picturechina/2006/10/06/huangpu-river/