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Nanjing Rd. Shanghai, China, 2004
07-OCT-2004

Nanjing Rd. Shanghai, China, 2004


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caveman_lee 16-Sep-2006 13:29
Nice capture. Voted.
poppyimaging 12-Sep-2006 10:31
Great shot!
Leelooita 03-Aug-2006 07:49
Fantastik!
koreanczyk 27-Jan-2006 11:55
Excellent. Another good urban shot. I see you have a great eye for graphism and color. Love the simplicuty of this compo and the intense color. The strangeness of the mood is gripping.
Guest 02-Jul-2005 04:44
hehehe...

I also notice that the man is carrying a camera... happen to be your buddy?:P
Leo 26-Apr-2005 08:08
and I forgot the most important incongruouse, Communist vs. Capitalist. Ha... very interesting.
Leo 26-Apr-2005 08:06
It's even funnier to see a Pepsi cola sitting near the Mcdonalds. It's like the McDoll vs. the man, Coke Cola vs. Pepsi. Double incongruous.
Guest 30-Dec-2004 04:27
Jen, this is a stunning image..One of my favorite pix in you gallery.

Just one thing, BigMac contracts with Coca-Cola...
Jennifer Zhou 21-Dec-2004 12:23
Hi Wes, I knew you've been Shanghai and wow, you were here in this Mcdonalds. I took this shot on the last day of National Holiday. and you are right, I think Chinese Mcdonalds tastes better than in other places.

Jen
Wes Kawachi 21-Dec-2004 10:42
I was at this very McDonalds, Jen! Except it was National Holiday and Nanjing Lu was packed! Wonderful capture...and personally I felt the Chinese McDonalds were too healthy...so in that way the Chinese Big Mac is not the same as the Chicago Big Mac, but otherwise I feel Phil's reading of the image is correct.
Xabier Mikel Laburu Van Woudenberg 17-Dec-2004 22:09
Great critic shot, the american capitalism entering the Red Gigant (as we say here to refere the comunist China). Very well seen, great.
Linda Zhang 22-Nov-2004 21:50
Super shot!
EclecticPhoto 01-Nov-2004 19:14
Great photo Jennifer!
Steve Pepple 23-Oct-2004 13:28
Excellent capture. The kind of photo you would see in National Geographic.
young yang 21-Oct-2004 15:33
very good capture.it tells more than what we see in the picture. just few decades ago, nobody knew McDonald'and there was no McDonald's in China. now, it's everywhere......
Gary Wexler 19-Oct-2004 02:02
He's drinking a Pepsi. Obviously the man did not go to McDonald's !
Denny Whits 17-Oct-2004 22:29
Very neat photo.
Orit Alloush 17-Oct-2004 14:00
funny!
Zane Paxton 15-Oct-2004 16:10
Great image! LOL!
bruce berrien 14-Oct-2004 21:41
Delightful photo! The sight of a normal human in the midst of all that hyper neon yellow is at once eye-catching and thought-provoking. Well done!
Ray Soemarsono - www.aperturaphoto.com 13-Oct-2004 23:48
New invades old. Great contrast & truly a decisive moment.
Matias Asun 11-Oct-2004 07:31
Ok... As usual Phil expresses Ideas better.
By the way, it is Ronald Macdonald who´s saluting us! He´s in his home, like in "China went to Macdonald´s". The guy is just using the bench, wich is owned by Ronald. And we can assume Ronald is not moving at all, right? So this is like; "make your own publicity for us, and then came to our place". Interesting, because in this kind of logic who´s who?
Phil Douglis 09-Oct-2004 17:47
Social commentary, Jen, is the art of expressing ideas about society itself. As Alfredo said, your image says that "China is changing." MacDonalds is not only doing a huge business there, but it has become a part of Chinese culture itself. This man is so absorbed in the MacDonalds mystique that he feels that its perfectly normal to share a bench with Ronald MacDonald himself. He does not even notice who he is sitting next to. And that, Jen, is a social comment. You are telling us here that the Westernization of China is pervasive and insidious. It is now taken for granted. A Big Mac in Shanghai is just the same as a Big Mac in Chicago. And as a result Shanghai is in the process of becoming just as much Chicago, as Chicago itself. The old China, the one that I tried to use as context for my own MacDonalds shot, is gone. This is what is replacing it. And this, Jen, is social commentary.

It is no wonder that you chose to put this image in "China on the Move" If any image makes that point, it is this one.
Jennifer Zhou 09-Oct-2004 12:39
Phil,
I like your morning McDonald too..you gave us more context by showing that famous clock on the top of Shanghai Art Gallery building.. So I can instantly tell this is a shot of China..

By the way, what is social commentary?

Jen

Jennifer Zhou 09-Oct-2004 10:47
Thanks to all!
Alfredo, you gave me a good reason to put this photo into my"CHINA ON THE MOVE" gallery.:) Thanks!

And Rod, yes you are right, yummy=hao chi! Good you still remember it haha..
April Sims 09-Oct-2004 03:31
Very nice. Love it.
Matias Asun 09-Oct-2004 00:01
God knows I don´t like MC but the picture is outstanding. Gets voted.
Phil Douglis 08-Oct-2004 22:51
****I love this shot, Jen. It is very incongruous, and far more effective than a similar image that I made in Shanghai last June. http://www.worldisround.com/articles/58821/photo54.html) Your photo is a double incongruity -- even by himself, the wooden clown on the bench waving his arm at nobody is amusing. When you added this grumpy man to the bench, it becomes even funnier. Please, please, Jen, keep up the humor. You have a wonderful wit, and you are able to bring social commentary to your images by using it so well.
Rodney 07-Oct-2004 14:40
How to say "yummy!" in Chinese (ummm 'hao chi' ?hehehe) :)
Alfredo 07-Oct-2004 14:16
A very clever image; the composition and colors are great, but the most notable element is the messege that the picture has: China is changing. Simply magnific
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