Society Page Outtakes, top to bottom, left to right:

1. Kids at Tashkent Airport, waiting for flight to Urumqi

2. Bamboo stripper stripping bamboo for pickling, top of Emei Shan

3. blog Author, Turpan Ruins, trying to keep cool

4. author’s husband, slurping noodles in Dunhuang noodle shop

5. author and husband, at Turpan ruins taking selfies for entertainment while waiting to be rescued by Desert Storm trooper

6. Paper maker making paper from Mulberry bark

7. live Kewpie Doll washing Kewpie Doll, grape resort in Turpan