Photographer and artist Yan Changjiang was born and raised near the Yangtze River. This gallery shows his intimate portraits of the people living in the Three Gorges region, taken in the early 2000s before their lands vanished under the water.
The Chengdu Photography Center’s current exhibition, “The River of Time,” features renowned Chinese photographer Li Zhensheng’s work spanning 60 years. Li’s collection of photographs, including the one above, depicting swimmers reading Mao Zedong’s The Little Red Book before taking a plunge in the river, provides a rare and nuanced glimpse of the Cultural Revolution.
Xu Haifeng follows three silicone doll owners in China—men who keep the dolls as companions and, sometimes, as sex toys. Most doll owners keep their dolls a secret from their families and communities, choosing instead to share their stories in online forums. But a few men bring their dolls out in public, where they often receive a lot of attention and ridicule from passersby.
Kokang, Myanmar is a region bordering Yunnan province where casinos and gambling are legal. It is a destination for many gamblers from China. Here, drugs are easily accessible because they are provided by the casinos and easy to obtain on the street. According to Tencent, thousands of Chinese gamblers have lost all their money in casinos, become addicted to drugs, and wound up stranded in Kokang over the past decade.
Taiwan’s Muslims make up only 0.23 percent of the island’s estimated 23 million population. Most are Chinese Muslims whose ancestors came from the mainland during two periods: first in the 17th century following Chinese marine commander Zheng Chenggong’s campaign of resistance against the Manchu conquest, and later in the mid-20th century following the Nationalist retreat after the Chinese Civil War.
China’s urban population has slowly become more accepting of sexual and gender minorities, but drag queens are still among the most discriminated against. In this gallery, photographer Jia Yanan follows the difficulties and challenges of three drag queens. You can see the gallery on their English-language, partner website Sixth Tone.
Photographer Wu Yue followed the story of one man whose father died in last week's tornado. Like his father, many who died or were injured in last Thursday’s tornado were elderly. Their children had left home to work in the cities.
A deadly tornado hit eastern China’s Jiangsu province last Thursday. When the winds had died down, nearly 100 had perished and hundreds more were injured. Photographer Li Qizhen interviewed the survivors and photographed scenes of the destruction.
Over the last couple years, China has become the leading destination for Cambodian women who marry foreign men. The skewed sex ratio in China has pushed many single men to find wives from neighboring countries, creating a surge in marriages between Cambodian women and Chinese men over the past three years.
Late last year, the Chinese Communist Party ended its decades-old one-child policy. This year has been dubbed “the year of the second child.” Freelance photographer Zhou Qiang visited families with two children in three cities, and photographed their lives with a focus on the relationship between the siblings, and how their parents balance their attention and love between them, a balance a one-child family never had to consider.
