Life in Guangdong’s ancient, neglected, and crumbling “Earth Buildings”
On a sunny afternoon, 83-year-old Huang Jichang takes out a worn slip of paper from his room, points to a paragraph and, without removing the cheap cigarette he’s smoking from his mouth, reads it to me: “Xinyunlou was built in the year of Jiachen, in the period of Emperor Yongzheng, Qing dynasty.”
Huang Jichang with his slip of paper that claims his home was built in the early 18th century
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Arthur Wei is a student pursuing a Bachelor’s degree in Internet and New Media. He has a strong interest in news and documentary photography, and is especially interested in social and cultural reporting.
