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

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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