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"Fanchuan, or sailing junks [such as this], resemble those that traded with India six centuries ago. Chinese junks of that era were some of the world's biggest ships. Junks today carry most Yangtze River cargo. Although China's network of railways and roads has greatly expanded, rivers still serve as important arteries of commerce."
—Text from the National Geographic book Journey into China, 1982
(Photographed on assignment for, but not published in, "Taiwan," November 1993, National Geographic magazine)
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