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on February 9, 2018
Children Born with AIDS | Tencent “Living”
on February 9, 2018
It is rare to see children born with HIV/AIDS represented in Chinese media coverage, and the group is still marginalized in China. Photographer Ma Nuo sought to respectfully and creatively photograph some of these children. In these photos, we see seven-year-old Kunliang, who aspires to become a bus driver, playing with two apples, and 13-year-old Yijing, who dreams of becoming a singer. (Names have been changed to protect the children’s identities.) The photographer wrote in a postscript that he wanted “to show their hopes and dreams about life, just like any other children their age.”
Finding Work across the Borders | Sina “Witness”
on February 9, 2018
As tourism and commerce thrive on the Chinese-Vietnamese border, photographer Wu Hao documents Vietnamese who crossed the border into Dongxing, a border town in Guangxi province, every morning to do business or work in Chinese factories. Many Chinese business owners prefer foreign workers because they don’t need to pay for their benefits.
Parachuted into America | Tencent “Living”
on February 9, 2018
An increasing number of Chinese teens are sent by their parents to American middle and high schools. Most of these students come from affluent families. Photographers Wu Jiaxiang and Che Yicen followed a couple of students as they navigate a new school system, focusing less on exams and more on extracurricular activities and a new life in a different culture.
Kang | Tencent “Living”
on February 9, 2018
As winter sets in across Northern China, families spend more time on their kangs, raised heated platforms that serve as the center of the home. As the days shorten and nights lengthen, the kang becomes a place to chat, eat, and play. Photographer Liu Lichang visited people’s homes and captured intimate moments on their kangs.
The Beijing Apartment Complex That Is Home to Thousands of Migrants| Tencent “Living”
on February 9, 2018
Outside Beijing’s fifth ring road, 30,000 residents live in a 21-building apartment complex. At night, light coming out of the small and dense apartments won it the nickname “Beijing Pixels.” The complex, about 50 acres, is a breathing city itself, housing supermarkets, restaurants, game rooms, and beauty salons. The apartments are mostly occupied by young migrants working or studying in Beijing, drawn by cheap rent and neighbors in similar circumstances as themselves. Photographer Zhao Heting captures life in Beijing Pixels in these tilt-shift images.
How to Grow Old | Tencent GUYU Project
on February 9, 2018
Raised by her grandparents, Zhou Yang was inspired to explore the universal experience of aging and started photographing elderly people while studying for her Master’s in London. She then returned to Shanghai to document her grandmother’s battle with Alzheimer’s and her family’s experience supporting her, and then began working on the project “How to Grow Old,” which she finished last year. Her portraits depict the active lives of senior citizens in Shanghai.
The Port and The Image: Documenting China’s Harbor Cities | Tencent GUYU Project
on February 9, 2018
In 2016, curator He Yining invited eight visual artists to photograph seven major port cities: Ningbo, Quanzhou, Guangzhou, Nanjing, Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Dalian. The images the artists created varied between collage, video, and sound installation; each in its own visual language explores the life and history of these Chinese ports. The image above was taken by one of the artists, Zhu Lanqing, in Quanzhou Bay in Fujian, where the shipwreck of a Song-dynasty trading vessel was discovered in 1974.
The Transformation of Beijing’s Garbage Villages | Tencent “Pictures Talk”
on February 9, 2018
In 2013, photographer Wang Jing visited villages on the outskirts of Beijing where the residents were mainly migrants who worked for nearby garbage and recycling stations. Alongside Beijing’s rapid urban expansion has come a recent push to clean up the outskirts of the city. In 2017, Wang returned to the villages he had photographed four years before, to see what they are like now. The answer he found: everything is gone.
A New School Year, but Not for Children of Migrants | Caixin Media
on February 9, 2018
September brings a new school year for children in China. But some schools on the outskirts of Beijing that provide affordable education for migrant children have recently been either closed or forced to relocate. These photos, taken by Yang Yifan and Chen Liang, show what that means for the students at these schools, for their families, and for the schools’ teachers and administrators.
