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HISTORY

City of Dreams

Forty years after reform, migrants are trying to define a “Shenzhen Dream” that binds the city together

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Going North

Cheap prices and “internet celebrity” stores are drawing Hong Kong millennial tourists to the mainland

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Ghosts of Guanlan

A “protected” Hakka village is gradually being abandoned to the elements

ARTS

The Writing on the Walls

Shenzhen’s Dafen village, once the world’s painting factory, faces redevelopment as an “art park.” But what will happen to its artists?

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Memory of Deng Xiaoping strong in Shenzhen

The grand engineer of reform and opening-up, Deng Xiaoping had a special tie with Shenzhen, illustrated in these photos

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Mind the Gender Gap

China’s first female-only subway carriages seem to have plenty of males

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Megapolis in Sight

Jing-Jin-Ji: Three cities combined in massive urban project