Children play in front of a brick factory on the outskirts of the northern Myanmar city of Mandalay on December 14, 2015. (Photo by Phyo Hein Kyaw/AFP Photo)

People cross the street in central Pyongyang, North Korea May 4, 2016. (Photo by Damir Sagolj/Reuters)

A competitor walks on tightrope during a performance in Taizhou, Zhejiang Province, China, May 7, 2016. (Photo by Reuters/China Daily)

People use a board to travel on a flooded street after heavy rainfall in Baghdad, Iraq, October 31 2015. (Photo by Ahmed Saad/Reuters)

Women in costumes walk as they participate in Halloween celebrations in the downtown of Seoul, South Korea, October 31, 2015. (Photo by Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters)

A victim under a blanket lays dead outside the Bataclan theater in Paris, Friday November 13, 2015. (Photo by Jerome Delay/AP Photo)

Labourers unload gravel from a boat docked in Dala township, opposite Yangon city, Myanmar, November 12, 2015. (Photo by Olivia Harris/Reuters)

Photographer Ma Hongjie has spent 11 years documenting families in various parts of China for his upcoming book The Family Belongings of Chinese People. Here: a couple with their belongings and vegetables in Hebei Huailai county. (Photo by Ma Hongjie)