Xiao Huang, a gamer like his father, is a member of a chess club and gets instruction twice weekly. He is rarey to be found without a deck of cards in his hands. A candidate for Gamblers Anonymous in a few decades.

We went for a Saturday drive on the very day of the China sailboat race. I had been her bicycling with the class of 1991 on the Boxing Day tsunami 2004.

I have never met a Chinese national for whom taking one phot is efficient.

This is a kid who doesn't mind his photo being taken. He used to by shy.

If China is the center of the world, then the single male child is the center of the family

We rented tandems. In 2004 there were no bicycle rental shops; now there is a whole street of them. This is almost exclusively for domestic tourism.

A nice ride along the shore; the whole area is being developed in a careful way, for now.

Road work during the weekdays; police texting.

family Huang