During a stay on a tea farm in Suichang, Zhejiang Province I helped three women pick tea on the mountains carved with tea bushes. These women begin work from 6am to 6pm everyday throughout the harvest season and live at the tea farm owner's house, returning to their homes only after the harvest season is over. In the off-season they work in clothing factories or raise pigs.
During a stay on a farm in Jilin province just next to the border of North Korea, my 'host brother' and I helped turn over a family's trailer that had tipped from the weight of brush. This family, like most families in the village, was preparing for winter by gathering dried corn stalks and sticks to feed their cows and use as firewood throughout the winter.
Before the sun sets Wang Peng's mom spreads Huajiao out to dry on their cement rooftop, everyone in their village relies on picking Huajiao (a spice used in most Sichuan dishes) for their main income.
My friend Cheng Yuan and I enjoy a rest on a mountaintop in Aba, Sichuan province. After spending a month working for an environmental NGO on a nearby mountain we accompanied our friend, Wang Peng, to his home village where just two years ago everyone's houses had been destroyed by the earthquake.
During a stay on a farm in Jiangsu province my host family and I caught fish on the local fish farm for dinner, price for fishing that evening: one pack of cigarettes paid to the fish-farm boss.
During a stay on a tea farm in Suichang, Zhejiang Province I helped three women pick tea on the mountains carved with tea bushes. These women begin work from 6am to 6pm everyday throughout the harvest season and live at the tea farm owner's house, returning to their homes only after the harvest season is over. In the off-season they work in clothing factories or raise pigs. 
During a stay on a farm in Jilin province just next to the border of North Korea, my 'host brother' and I helped turn over a family's trailer that had tipped from the weight of brush. This family, like most families in the village, was preparing for winter by gathering dried corn stalks and sticks to feed their cows and use as firewood throughout the winter. 
Before the sun sets Wang Peng's mom spreads Huajiao out to dry on their cement rooftop, everyone in their village relies on picking Huajiao (a spice used in most Sichuan dishes) for their main income. 
My friend Cheng Yuan and I enjoy a rest on a mountaintop in Aba, Sichuan province. After spending a month working for an environmental NGO on a nearby mountain we accompanied our friend, Wang Peng, to his home village where just two years ago everyone's houses had been destroyed by the earthquake. 
During a stay on a farm in Jiangsu province my host family and I caught fish on the local fish farm for dinner, price for fishing that evening: one pack of cigarettes paid to the fish-farm boss.
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