This young waitress works in a small restaurant or food shop just outside the gate to this ancient city about an hour outside of Shanghai. She waits to greet customers -- this day, they are far and few between. The glass panels add context – the Chinese words most likely proclaim the taste treats that await diners. When I began photographing her, she was self-consciously smiling, but after I had made about ten images of her, she relaxed and appears to be lost in her own thoughts here.