I& #39;ve been going through some old China photos that make me smile, and wanted to start a thread here to share them with you all. I& #39;ll be posting ~1 per day to this thread.

First one: Recycling guy on his bike, Xi& #39;an 友谊路, 2010
China pic, day 2:

Shijiazhuang, Zhaotuo Park, 2013. This guy was the most elegant kicker of the 毽子 (Chinese hackey sack) that I ever had the honor of watching.
China pic, day 3:
Just a dude defrosting his steamroller with a flamethrower. You know how it is. 甜水园东街, November 2015.

Took this pic on a day when I walked from the east 5th ring road to the west 5th road.
China pic, day 4:
Migrant workers sleeping in the tunnels they& #39;re building outside the Xi& #39;an city wall& #39;s south gate, 2013.

I& #39;d hitchhiked from Hangzhou to Xi& #39;an and stayed w/ a friend for a month. Took this during a drunken night ramble around the city on my last night there.
China pic, day 5:

A young 帅哥 w/ an iPhone 7 haircut.

Met this guy in rural Shaanxi while researching a story on a @StanfordREAP program that retrained one-child-policy enforcers as early childhood educators for left-behind children: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/china-rural-education-reap_n_55df2fdee4b029b3f1b1cc9f">https://www.huffpost.com/entry/chi...
China pic, day 6:

A giant Christmas Tree and the Xi& #39;an Wild Goose Pagoda, December 2015. Took this from a restaurant during a boozy baijiu brunch celebrating the birth of my frisbee teammate& #39;s kid.
China pic, day 7:

67 year old super-athlete Geng Zhi doing a headstand in Beijing& #39;s Tiantan Park, 2014.

I made a whole video of freakishly athletic Chinese grandparents early in my time at @HuffPost. Putting us young guns to shame: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84rXHqjltjs">https://www.youtube.com/watch...
China pic, day 8:

Western Beijing, seen from the top of the hill in Jingshan Park, 2015. That park has always been my favorite place in the city.
China pic, day 9:

Looking east from Xi& #39;an Railway Station, October 2015. My caption for this photo when I posted to WeChat at the time: "今天在陕西到山西的车上带了个赛百味三明治,一个泡面,两瓶C100果汁,一瓶五粮液白酒 #幸福"
China pic, day 10.

Getting my ear cleaned at People& #39;s Park in Chengdu. I was in Sichuan running around reporting on a few different stories. Finally took a lazy Saturday in the park: watching the people, getting my ears cleaned, and reading Waiting by Ha Jin (great book).
China pic, day 11:

"Emergency Brick" on the floor of the 707 bus in Xi& #39;an. The characters on it are 救急, roughly meaning "use in emergency." It was the local version of the little glass-breaking hammers, held to the ground by two pegs. Gotta love the practicality.
China video, day 12:

My 74-year-old dad trying his best to regurgitate a Chinese sentence that I taught him in a Xi& #39;an cafe, 2015. He speaks/reads 7 languages, and starting around 2013 made a very noble attempt at learning Chinese.
爸爸加油!
China pic, day 13:

Kazakh students dancing at the after-party for an ultimate frisbee tournament, Wuhan 2010. My first trip to Wuhan mean a lot to me, so I wrote this essay in Chinese about it: https://medium.com/@mattsheehan88/%E4%B8%80%E4%B8%AA%E8%80%81%E5%A4%96%E5%85%B3%E4%BA%8E%E6%AD%A6%E6%B1%89%E7%9A%84%E4%B8%80%E4%BA%9B%E5%9B%9E%E5%BF%86-an-americans-memories-of-wuhan-f830a1985086">https://medium.com/@mattshee...
China pic, day 14:

Checking into a hotel that required a face scan, Xiaoshan District, Hangzhou, 2016.

I was freaked out that the front desk was scanning my face. The front desk lady was freaked out that I was taking a picture of them scanning my face.
China pic, day 15:

Guests at a rural wedding in Tengzhou, Shandong, 2016.

I interviewed the groom, a migrant worker and security guard, for the first story I reported in China for HuffPost. We stayed in touch and he invited me to his wedding two years later.
China pic, day 16:

Plato and Aristotle debate the merits of JD deliveries, Xi& #39;an, 2015.

My friend& #39;s 小区 in Xi& #39;an signaled it& #39;s lofty ambitions by building statues of famous philosophers all around the exterior.
China pic, day 17:

High-speed train, somewhere between Nanjing and Beijing, 2017.

Whichever mid-level 交通部 official took the bribe to have this ad staring at every passenger on every high-speed train in China needs to be investigated ASAP for serious violations of discipline.
China pic, day 18:

Negotiating with the subway police, Halloween 2012.

Every Halloween night there was a massive costume party on Line 2 subway in Beijing. In 2012, I was dressed as cartoon sheep 喜羊羊 and stumbled into the role of negotiating on behalf of the subway party.
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