Life in New China: Photo Essays by Beijing Youth

"Everywhere you look today, China is in the news. But how much do we know about daily life there?

In April 2006, WKCD, with the support of the Asia Society, spent two weeks with students at Beijing No. 12 High School creating a series of photo essays about life—and school—in New China. Younger students added a postscript: an audio Chinese-English dictionary in their own voices."

Visit the website for their "remarkable images and words in a series of 15 multimedia presentations. Look and listen to what these Beijing youth have to say--in Chinese as well as English.

See the diversity among Beijing residents: soldiers in Tiananmen Square, shoppers along Wangfujing Street, migrant bricklayers in one of the city's poor neighborhoods, park goers at Houhai Lake.

See how old and new, Eastern and Western, co-exist in today's China."