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Sleeping People of China

By Alex in Pictures, Travel & Places on Oct 28, 2007 at 2:27 am


You may have heard the term "The Sleeping Giant" being applied to China, but as German photographer Bernd Hagemann found out, the term may actually have a more literal meaning: Chinese people can sleep anywhere, anytime!

Indeed Bernd has documented this phenomenon: Here’s a fantastic gallery of sleeping people in China, categorized as "hardsleepers" (those who sleep in pretty hardcore positions), "softsleepers" (who needs a little padding) and "groupsleepers" (those who sleep with friends, literally!)

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  1. Vexorg
    Oct 28th, 2007 at 3:40 am

    Wow... I have enough trouble sleeping in my own bed, I could never imagine sleeping in a place like that.

  2. Justin
    Oct 28th, 2007 at 11:37 am

    I don't think these people are getting their 8 hours of sleep a night! :)

  3. L
    Oct 28th, 2007 at 3:08 pm

    Why do they need to sleep in weird places during the daytime? Don't they sleep at night?

  4. Louis
    Nov 2nd, 2007 at 4:33 pm

    Oh, Ive heard of this!
    I have a friend in China (near Shanghai) that speaks of this– there’s a specific word in Chinese that conveys the concept– they sleep almost ANYWHERE. I think it’s most prevalent at certain times of the year (like the Spring). People have a tendency to feel sleepy. We have 'spring fever' they have 'sleep fever'

  5. Ventus
    Apr 3rd, 2008 at 6:36 pm

    It would be so funny to find someone sleeping like that!
    But about that thing.. how are children supposed to play on it? It's kinda weird IMO :P

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