Monument of inefficiency or overpopulation
Is this picture portraying a monument of inefficiency or overpopulation? This Chinese policeman, and many more like him, controls traffic at one of a dozen "human light stops" at Chongqing. This hilly city is a good base camp for a journey to the soon-to-be immersed Three Gorges down the Yangtze River.


teahouse with rivers on the ground
Pedestrian mall thronged with bargain hunters