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11.19.12

China’s Footprint in Myanmar

Sim Chi Yin
President Barack Obama’s visit to Yangon (also known as Rangoon) today shines a spotlight on a story that has already captured the world’s attention: namely, the remarkable political transformation that has been underway over the past year in...

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10.24.12

Growth

James Whitlow Delano
The photographer James Whitlow Delano says he finds beauty in melancholy. For more than two decades, he has sought it out around the edges of the often ebullient story of China’s economic rise. His book Empire: Impressions from China,...

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08.02.12

Transported by Song: A Traveling Opera Hits the Road

Gilles Sabrié
Seven days a week eight hours a day, the members of the Sanjin Shanxi Opera Troupe impersonate princes, generals, and emperors. These performers are keeping alive one of China’s oldest traditions: its opera. Almost every region of the country has...

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06.04.12

Being Bingbing

Rian Dundon

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05.11.12

Heteroscapes of Chongqing

Bo Wang
“Heteroscapes” is a portrait of China’s contemporary urban spaces and landscapes during a period of transition. Through the economic boom of the past twenty years, these changes have shifted social power structures and subverted once common values...

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05.09.12

Wukan Daily Life

Sim Chi Yin
While village elections are widespread in China, it’s rare for the Party not to exert pressure over the selection of candidates. When the Guangdong province village of Wukan held elections in February and March 2012, however, they were notably free...

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05.08.12

Epidemic Proportions

Aaron Deemer
Approximately 100-120 million Chinese live with chronic hepatitis B infection. Most acquired the disease at birth, through transmission from an infected mother, or during early childhood. Hepatitis B has touched the lives of virtually every family...

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05.07.12

The Benches of Tiananmen

Gilles Sabrié
Tiananmen Square. Center of China, theater set of the Chinese Communist Party’s biggest political shows, Mecca of millions and yet a void in the city. No Beijinger in his right mind would ever suggest “meet me at the Square.” Tourists find no place...

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05.06.12

My Uncle, My Father

Edwin Koo
In Aguwa village, Yunnan province, the Mosuo continue to practice their ancient tradition of matriarchy. Women rule the tightly-knit families as heads of households, while men practice “walking marriages,” fathering children whom they seldom help...
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