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Juxtapoz Magazine - Ronghui Chen's Freezing Land

Fri, 08 Jan 2021 00:00:00 +0000

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 a…

Link: https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/photography/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.

Young People Left Behind in China’s Snowbound Rust Belt - The New York Times

Wed, 27 Feb 2019 00:00:00 +0000

Young People Left Behind in China’s Snowbound Rust Belt

Ronghui Chen’s photographs of young people in Northeastern China capture a loneliness he recognized in his own trek from village to city.

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/26/lens/ronghui-chen-freezing-land.html

Ronghui Chen’s photographs of young people in Northeastern China capture a loneliness he recognized in his own trek from village to city.

Ronghui Chen – Freezing Land « burn magazine

Fri, 14 Dec 2018 00:00:00 +0000

Ronghui Chen – Freezing Land

Ronghui Chen Freezing Land [ EPF 2018 FINALIST ] We’re used to thinking of Chinese cities in the context of growth, but the country’s northeast region is an exception. Bordering Russia …

via burn magazine: https://www.burnmagazine.org/essays/2018/12/ronghui-chen-freezing-land/

My project, Freezing Land, aims to explore descendants of immigrants living in the northeast. Meanwhile, Chinese President Xi Jinping started a campaign called the “Chinese Dream”. But what does this mean to the the once prosperous land? What’s the story of today’s northeastern China?