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Photo Stories

LIFE

Maotai Drifters: Work and Life in China’s Liquor Capital

Photographer Ma Changyu, a former worker in Maotai, documents the surreal contrasts of solitude and bustle that define the baijiu-producing town

Ma Changyu (马昌渝) & Jiayu Zhang (张佳羽)

March 20, 2026

TRADITIONAL CULTURE

A Tiny Rural Community’s Grand Effort to Welcome the Ancestral God | Photo Story

Despite having only six households left, the “parading of the god” ceremony in Fujian’s Weixiang village continues each year, alive with color, techn…

Hayley Zhao, Cao Ying, and Wu Cixin

Nov. 4, 2025

ARTS

Green Gold: The Rise of China’s Avocado Capital

Photographer Li Wei, better known as Dameng, captures how avocado farming transformed ethnic communities in a small southwestern village

Li Wei (李伟), Hayley Zhao, and Jiayu Zhang (张佳羽)

Aug. 27, 2024

TRAVEL

Caverns of Culture: Leisure and Spirituality in China’s Karst Caves | Photo Story

Photographer Cai Shanhai captures life and leisure of southwest China’s “cave dwellers”

Jiayu Zhang (张佳羽)

April 19, 2024

TRADITIONAL CULTURE

Marketplace of Memories

Capturing Shandong’s market culture as it evolves with the times

Zhang Huili (张惠丽), Liu Jue (刘珏), and Zhong Ming (钟鸣)

Nov. 7, 2023

HISTORY

Mid-Autumn Festival Celebrations Through the Ages

The Mid-Autumn Festival became an official public holiday only in 2008, but it has been celebrated for centuries

Liu Jue (刘珏)

Sept. 29, 2023

SPORTS

Hype and Drama at China’s Viral Village Soccer Championships

The recently concluded “Village Super League” championships in Guizhou have showcased local food, unique performances, and amateur soccer players fro…

Hatty Liu

Aug. 1, 2023

TRADITIONAL CULTURE

How China’s Dancing Lions Get Their Heads

Peek inside the workshop of a Chinese artisan, who is trying to keep alive the centuries-old craft of making “heads” for traditional lion dance

Tan Yunfei (谭云飞)

June 29, 2023

TRADITIONAL CULTURE

Dragon on the Water

Three generations of artisans ride the waves on dragon boats

Sun Jiahui (孙佳慧)

June 22, 2023

SOCIETY

Fading Trades: Photographing China’s Disappearing Professions

Once common sights on sidewalks, many old professions are giving way to online apps and urbanization. Photographer Huang Ruide captures these fading …

Liu Jue (刘珏)

March 28, 2023

SOCIETY

Photographing the Remnants of “Zero Covid”

After the sudden end of China’s “dynamic zero” Covid policy, photographers capture the lingering relics of the country’s pandemic prevention apparatus

The Editors

March 12, 2023

SOCIETY

Behind the Scenes at China’s Christmas Factories

It’s always holiday season in Yiwu, a “fourth-tier” Chinese city where migrant workers churn out two-thirds of the world’s Christmas decorations

Roman Kierst (小罗)

Dec. 24, 2022

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