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Toasting by a fire — Qiu Li Min When I first saw these upended woven baskets on sale in Du’an, Guangxi Province, I thought, “Surely this can’t be a cage for birds or animals?”... Cuiping Hill — Chen Wei Yin From my bedroom window, I can see Cuiping Hill (翠屏山) beyond the bus station (which is across the street)... Changing Facades - Qiu Li Min When we first saw privately-built homes in Guangxi some 6 years ago, they mostly fell into the same pattern... Holiday Herbal Market - Mo Rui Qiu While the rest of the country is hosting dragon boat races, and telling the story of the poet Qu Yuan during the Dumpling Festival... Zhuang Earthenware - Mo Rui Qiu Right next to a major road, in western Guangxi Province, we found a chipper man in his mid-fifties holding... Nuosu Yi New Year: Slaughtering the Pig — Mother of Brook Song We were invited to our Nuosu friend’s house to celebrate Yi New Year. He slept with us in town the night before... Setting the Trends in Miao Fashion - by Xiao Kang Cast your mind back thirty years or so and imagine you are wandering through the streets of a market town somewhere in south-eastern Yunnan... |
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Late yesterday evening I got back from a trip up to the mountains, whereI got to see a minority-culture wedding among the Dongxiang people... No medicine needed for teething babies — Liu Shan Shan It was a cold, bone-numbing winter day in Mao Xian, Sichuan... Talbiuq:A Naxi Holiday— Jacqueline Pinson “What’s Talbiuq?” “I guess we’ll find out tomorrow,” I answered... |
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