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05.17.19
Surface Tension
“I never realized that so many Chinese people have tattoos,” says photographer Xu Song, who spent the summers of 2014, 2015, and 2016 photographing people at outdoor swimming pools in Beijing with his phone. “When the clothes come off, the secrets...
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USA Today
Drowning is now the #1 killer of Chinese children under the age of 14, topping traffic accidents and infectious disease
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08.08.16China Is Angry Over These Olympics
Fortune
The state press and internet users are lashing out after an Australian swimmer’s comments.
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07.31.12China, the Olympics and the Swimmer
New Yorker
The People’s Daily, the flagship of China’s state-run media empire, tried, in all honesty, to make sense of the opening ceremony at the London Olympics—an event, the paper noted, that cost not only a fraction of the opening ceremony four years ago...