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San Liao, a village of 6,000 located in the eastern province of Jiangxi, prides itself on being China’s Number 1 Feng Shui village, with more than 100 professional Feng Shui masters who select the best locations and orientations for tombs, homes, and commercial buildings. The local government of San Liao has dedicated $50 million to developing “feng shui tourism,” but the village’s road to prosperity is difficult because feng shui was outlawed during the Cultural Revolution as superstition, a view many people in China still hold.
People born in the 1980s in China grew up in the decade of economic reform amid opportunities that previous generations could never have dreamed of. Photographer Lu Beifeng made portraits of members of this generation in Beijing in 2010 when the oldest had just turned 30 and the youngest were 21. Lu photographed people from all walks of life. From May 28 to June 11, this series of portraits will be exhibited in Inter Gallery in Beijing.
These photos depict five former “sent-down youth,” or zhiqing, who were dispatched from Shanghai and Chongqing to the jungles of Xishuangbanna prefecture in Yunnan province during the “Down to the Countryside Movement” Mao Zedong initiated in the late 1950s. The movement continued until the end of the Cultural Revolution in 1976, during which time some 17 million urban youngsters were resettled in rural areas to be reeducated through agricultural labor. This photo essay explores its subjects’ recollections of their experiences, 50 years on.
This month the Chongqing Art Museum exhibited images from the ’70s and earlier of the Hua Long Bridge district, a once prosperous Chongqing neighborhood. The area of the city was home to more than 200 state- and privately-owned businesses. Tencent writes, “Many people wanted to work at Hua Long Bridge’s state-owned factories, and it was the place Chongqing women most hoped to find husbands.”
Photographer Li Ming was born in Xining, the capital of Qinghai province on the Tibetan plateau. Li’s hometown was once a stop along the Silk Road. Recently, Li returned to find the area in the throes of rapid urbanization.
