A man tends to his crops in Vietnam's Mekong Delta. South Vietnam, especially the region of the Mekong Delta, is the most fertile region of the country and where most of the rice, fruits and vegetables are grown. The region is so fertile that it can sustain multiple rice harvests per year and is sometimes called Vietnam's "rice bowl."
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A Vietnamese woman in a red ao dai poses for a photo at Nam Nha Pagoda in the Mekong Delta. The Chinese characters on the scroll speaks of centuries of Chinese immigration and influence on many aspects of Vietnamese culture. Vietnam was ruled by China for thousands of years until they threw off the Chinese yoke and became a tributary state. Over the centuries, many Chinese immigrants filtered into south Vietnamese society and eventually comprised the majority of the business class. This was true until 1975 when the North Vietnamese Communist Party confiscated their businesses and property and many south Vietnamese of Chinese descent fled the country and became part of today's Vietnamese diaspora.
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A man from the last gun toting Hmong tribe in China poses for an intimate portrait. He is wearing indigo blue clothes and his queue (pigtail) in a top knot on his head. Traditional Hmong clothing is dyed an indigo blue that is so dark that it almost becomes black. The dye is sourced from the Indigofera plant and the process of dyeing, hanging, and drying is repeated twice a day for one month.
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An elderly Hmong gentleman smoking a bamboo pipe in his village courtyard. His outfit reminds me of the drab Mao era clothing that Chinese people used to wear decades ago, though his headpiece is more traditional Hmong.
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A Chinese farmer and his water buffalo stand proudly in front of the karst peaks in Guilin. China's rapid development and economic prosperity in recent decades has meant a gradual decline in the rural population as people in the countryside migrate to more prosperous urban areas. Just a decade ago about 45% of China's population lived in the countryside. Today the proportion is about a third of the country's population. This still however represents almost half a billion people who primarily live an agrarian lifestyle.
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