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Q: Where are all the rickshaws?
Before I came to China I had a different idea of how China was and what I expected to see. I know things have changed from the old images I've seen of China. I really did think I would see traditional rickshaws. After I've been in China I saw poverity which I expected and Chinese people at home disagree with what I saw., living with no refrigerators etc. What preconceptions about China did you have?
There are actually a great deal of rickshaws, depending upon where you look. They still exist, for example, in the suburbs of Chengdu, in Pichin, for example, and in many southern Chinese cities. They are no longer man-drawn rickshaws but rather a bicycle-driven rickshaw but still with the rickshaw frame, the open carriage, the rickshaw peddler in front. They are not in the bigger cities that I have been in, or at least I have not seen them but as I said, I have seen them and ridden in them in some of the less-developed cities down south.
