Authority
Contributor: Laura Catherine Beste
Country: China
City: Beijing
This photo is of the guards at Tienanmen Square.
Watching the soldiers walk together, even if they were not marching, they were always walking in unison with their steps and arm motions following the same pattern. The presence of military authority was much more apparent in Beijing than in Hangzhou or Shanghai, especially around the important monuments of Tiananmen Square and the Forbidden City.