The other China
A river of rubbish: the ugly secret threatening China's most beautiful city
An ‘international tourism destination of peerless beauty’ say the slogans hanging in the streets of Guilin, but the scenic city’s rivers have recently been home to sewage and garbage. In a country where environmentalists are charged with anti-government espionage, will the authorities intervene?
My village didn't even have a traffic light. Now it has 1.4 million people
Xiaolu GuoWhen author Xiaolu Guo was a child, her village was a remote farming settlement. Now, like hundreds of others across China, it has become a metropolis with four-lane roads, a cancer epidemic … and even a new language