<![CDATA[
<body bgcolor="#c2c2c6" text="#000000" link="#aa0000" leftmargin="25" topmargin="10" marginwidth="25" marginheight="10" vlink="#990000">
<h2>Joe Englander Photography Workshops and Photo Tours</h2>
<h2>
China Photo Tour</h2>
<h3>Vanishing Culture</h3><p>China is opening up and disappearing at the same time. As it becomes dominant in the world economy, its cities and people become more and more indistinguishable from those of other developed countries. The typical tourist hot-spots—the Great Wall, the Palace in Peking—will endure while the old towns of Shanghai and Guilin have essentially disappeared already. Traditions that endured the Cultural Revolution are quickly succumbing to the new capitalistic economic revolution.</p>
<p>This photographic trip will be a search for the old China, an opportunity to photograph the traditional before it fades away. We will not be going to the Great Wall or any of the great cities, although we can provide trip extensions for those who wish to do so. What we will be doing is visiting as many diverse ethnic groups as possible, as many old villages as we can, and some absolutely gorgeous landscape.</p>
<p>Our tour will concentrate on areas in southern China: the provinces of Guilin, Guizhou, and Sichuan's Tibetan Shangri La. We will have the opportunity to photograph everything from fishermen to yak herders, calm rivers and reflecting lakes to roaring rapids and high mountains.</p>
<p>This trip and its extensions will be led by <a href="../joe.php" target="_top">Joe Englander</a>, who will be assisted in Guilin Province by the renowned Chinese photographer, Zhang Liping. We will be in Guilin at a time when the rice terraces are at their most photogenic, when they are being harvested by hand in the traditional way.</p><hr>
<p>This page requires frames for proper display. If your browser does not support
frames, please see our <a href="../text/index.php" target="_top">text-only site</a>
for complete information about this workshop or tour.</p>
<p>If your browser does support frames and you reached this page directly through
a search, it will look much nicer on the <a href="workshop.php?id=6" target="_top">frames
page</a>. </p>
<script language="javascript" src="/js/awstats_misc_tracker.js">
</body>
]]>