[Searching for Identity in China’s Outer Lands](http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/05/12/searching-for-identity-in-chinas-outer-lands/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body&_r=0#)

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Now, Mr. Sakamaki has turned to China’s fringe provinces — Xinjian, Yunnan, Liaoning and others — where his project, “China’s Outer Lands,” catalogs marginalized minority groups that are rapidly becoming strangers in the territories they call home