Subway train moving

Subway train moving

The Beijing Subway is a short run but reasonably efficient. “(C) Gary L. Friedman. This image is available for licensing. Contact info@FriedmanArchives.com“…



Father and Daughter on Motorcycle

Father and Daughter on Motorcycle

…a very crowded sidewalk. And although the driver was smiling, he was also bent on running me down. “(C) Gary L. Friedman. This image is available for licensing. Contact info@FriedmanArchives.com“…



Panning Tricycle

Panning Tricycle

A delivery bicycle rushing to its destination at dusk. “(C) Gary L. Friedman. This image is available for licensing. Contact info@FriedmanArchives.com“…



My Dog Kona

…Then he’d run back and forth along the edge of the cliff, chasing the airplanes which would sometimes come back to their owners and then leaping off the cliff once…



Chapter 7: Shanghai’d

Me_on_Return_Train

…that week was Marco, one of Manuel’s Italian friends and owner of the most famous Italian restaurant in Shanghai. Running a successful restaurant can be a very stressful job (even…



Chapter 11: Photo Album #1

It’s true. I photograph everything. One of the great things about being a photographer is it gives me a perfectly valid excuse to go places, see things, meet people, and…



Chapter 13: Business in China

…One with an equal amount of character. One which will keep my ears warm during the impending winter. One which also matches the Chinese / Russian army overcoat I bought…



Chapter 13½ The Al Capone of Jiangxi

…good job as a university professor and his mother is a math instructor. Could Mr. Carr ruin their lives as well? We went back to their house in my ragged…



Chapter 16: Christmas in Beijing

…conspire, and what insecure ruling party would allow that? Anyway, what I’m trying to say is I have found very few religious people here. (This is similar to the shocking…



Chapter 18: The Edge of the Sky

…very touristy — and I mean an order of magnitude worse than what normally passes for ‘touristy’. Taxi drivers earn their real income via kickbacks for steering tourists (Chinese, Russians,…