Picturing Xinjiang on the Big Screen
From cosmopolitan pictures to musical tourism advertisements, the Tianshan Film Studio once galvanized filmmaking in Xinjiang, but now struggles to regain its way
On the Trail of China’s Last Reindeer Herders
Renowned documentary director Gu Tao recounts his journey into indie filmmaking and his years living with Ewenki herders in northern China
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Korea Town
In northeast Yanbian, football, poetry, and patriarchy preserve a unique Chinese-Korean culture
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Serendipitous Sayram
A two-day Kazakh-Han wedding transforms pastures of western Xinjiang, as change comes to local herders’ lives
Digitizing the Oroqen
A researcher tries to preserve one of China’s dying minority languages online