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Migration, Interregional (Qūjì rénkǒu liúdòng 区际人口流动)|Qūjì rénkǒu liúdòng 区际人口流动 (Migration, Interregional)

Kam Wing CHAN Accurate Chinese migration statistics are notoriously hard to come by. United Nations researchers once called the Chinese

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Arline GOLKIN-KADONAGA Emaciated Chinese boy, a victim of famine. Historic photo dating to the early nineteenth century. Descriptions of famine

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Judith BANISTER Mothers and teachers take beribboned little girls to a park. PHOTO BY JOAN LEBOLD COHEN. Marriage in China

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Wim LUNSING Homosexuality during China’s long history can be traced through literature, accounts of life both inside and outside the

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YU Xuejian Established in 1931 as Red China News Agency, Xinhua News Agency, as it has been known since 1937,

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Bjoern CONRAD Sport’s training systems require care monitoring of the athlete’s various muscular and cardiovascular capacities. Here, a young athlete

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FAN Hong Liu Changchun, China’s first Olympic athlete, competed as a sprinter in the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. Although

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Scott ELDRIDGE II Sponsors are eager to get a foothold in Chinese sports. During the Beijing Olympics in 2008 the

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Michael G. DAVIS A group of men practice tai chi on the Bund in Shanghai, circa 1970. An admiring crowd

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Judy POLUMBAUM Countdown to the Olympic Games, Beijing. PHOTO BY TOM CHRISTENSEN. The 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was China’s

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