The crowds gather at a power supply station to make payment on a market day.
Wood and help from friends and relatives are all it takes for the Miao people to build a house.

                                                                  Kids at different ages study in the same class. It’s been a custom for girls to go to school later than boys.

A mini calculator is a complete novelty to the kids.

A teacher teaches elementary arithmetic illiterate local adults at night.

As more men leave home to work in cities, wives frequently visit pay phones downtown and queue to talk to their loved ones.  

A boy is playing with hog blood at a butcher’s.