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Story of a Century: Rising Incense Smoke at the Kwan Kung Shrine in Mumbai

by China India Dialogue February 11, 2017

On the Chinese Lunar New Year’s Eve, more than a hundred Chinese people gather at the only Chinese-style temple in Mumbai – the Kwan Kung shrine in the Mazgaon neighborhood – to draw divination sticks and pray with burning joss sticks. The three-story shrine has survived for a century.

Peizhai: A Village Springs Forward

by Hu Zhoumeng February 7, 2017

In 2005, villagers invited local-born entrepreneur Pei Chun- liang, who was working elsewhere, to return to head the village committee. Since then, Pei has led his fellow villagers to dig deep wells, erect greenhouses and build commercial streets and reservoirs.

The Endless Search for Fang Dazeng

by Yang Yunqian February 6, 2017

In 1936, when Japanese troops attacked China’s Suiyuan region, Fang, then a photo correspondent with the China and Foreign Journalism Society, contributed a number of news photos and articles from the frontlines.However, Fang went missing after his last battlefield report on Ta Kung Pao on September 30, 1937.