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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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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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