Juxtapoz Magazine – Ronghui Chen’s Freezing Land

“We’re used to thinking of Chinese cities in the context of growth,” explains photographer Ronghui Chen, “but the country’s northeast region is an exception. Bordering Russia and North Korea, the region, with ample natural resources, was the first to develop heavy industries in the 1960s and prospered for decades. There were 15 million immigrants to northeastern China in Mao’s era.