My friend asked me to put some images together that I’d taken from the past year in Beijing, and after sending them out I decided that I’d throw them up here on my blog too. I don’t know why, but I decided to make edit these as black-and-white images.
Without further ado:
An empty classroom at a migrant school in China. Migrant schools are limited in Beijing and many migrant children aren't allowed to, or can't afford to attend local Beijing schools in Beijing.
Children at a migrant school in Beijing smile for the camera.
Migrant school children await the arrival of the Denver Nuggets as part of the NBA Cares project in Beijing.
Local residents peer over a two story apartment block as NBA players arrive at the migrant school.
Migrant school children sit in a classroom as they wait for the NBA Cares program to begin.
A migrant teacher's daughter wait's for her mother outside of a classroom at a Beijing migrant school.
An elderly lady holding a toddler welcome a picture.
Cyclists pass by in the bike lane. Bike lanes are as dangerous as the main roads as silent electric bikes weave through the bicycle traffic.
Motorized carts are a common sight in Beijing. Many carts are stacked high with goods or scrap material.
A lady looks on at Beijing's traffic as she waits for her bus.
An elderly man alights at a bus stop at 安定门
A man glances out of his window on a Beijing public bus. Traffic in Beijing is slow and passengers find ways to pass the time on their commute.
A quiet day on the Beijing subway system. The trains are usually packed with people with barely any standing room.
Guards patrol around Tiananmen Square. Security and surveillance is tight to snuff any possible protests or demonstrations.
A father and child waits outside of the Forbidden City gate.
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I like the first one, the empty classroom, but they all look good, the black-and-white looks special. Duncan, 你好棒，拍了这么多照片。
You are seeing Beijing.
i like your pictures!
everything looks so serene..
Question: the one “A migrant teacher's daughter wait's for her mother outside of a classroom at a Beijing migrant school.”
You talked to her? The little girl and her mother are both migrants? But what exactly is migrant? I don't know. Am I also a migrant? And the cares program is really good for those children? The little girl seems not very happy.
I actually didn't talk to her, but my friend said that she was the daughter of a teacher at the school.
A migrant, I guess would be classified as a person who comes from the rural regions in China, to search for work in the cities, such as Beijing and Shanghai. There's a concern for migrant children in Beijing (hence the NBA CSR [corporate social responsibility] programs, and organizations such as CMC [Compassion for Migrant Children] because many migrant workers who come with their families to the cities have difficulty enrolling their children into the city's school systems because of financial reasons. Migrant schools are usually created within these communities with lower tuition fees, but many of these schools also don't have sufficient funding for adequate school supplies.
I don't know the exact details of the NBA Cares program- for this school, they built a new library, and two basketball courts for the school. I would say that the program is good for the children.
But, you're right, the girl doesn't seem too happy- but I wouldn't know if you could directly attribute that to be caused by the NBA Cares program or not.
No. What the NBA Cares program could do to make the girl unhappy? At first, I thought the cares program was just some famous person going to have a look at those children, you know, just show up, show some cares, so I asked is it really good for the children. Library is good, basketball court is good. But still, I think what they need is the same good education environment as other children. The government should pay more attention to this. I don't like the word migrant for them.
There can be many reasons for the girl's not too happy, maybe no other ones playing with her, maybe she's hungry, maybe she just wants her mother, maybe she's afraid of so many strangers…
You know, when I see those pictures, I just feel a little bit sad. So this is life. And most of people just have no other choice.
There are many stories inside those photoes.
Possibly the presence of all the people around would be a bit unsettling for the girl.
I agree- a good education environment is needed for these children, but that's the thing that's lacking right now in Beijing (and other cities in China) for those who come from the rural countryside to these cities.
You can read a bit more about the situation of these families: http://www.cmc-china.org/index.php?page=migrant...
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