Peter Schindler's China Blog
On the Road Encounters
with People in China

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If you think this photo, taken last year while travelling with Miss Daisy, is funny, perhaps you want to think again. To me, it carries a useful message about many (but by no means all) Chinese people's attitude to risk and risk-taking. Most of us rich folks may like the idea (though not always the reality) of risk, but by comparison with mainland China, especially rural mainland China, there are very few remaining real risks in our everyday lives.