Huangpu is a district of pigeon fanciers and the skies over Shanghai have seen birds racing back to their coops for the best part of a century. Words and pictures by Jonathan Browning.
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Activist's "long march" for nationalist cause
Dec 4, 2012
The last time Liu Peiwen walked a thousand miles by foot was when he wanted to convince his girlfriend to marry him. This year, the Henan-born 30 year-old conducted a “long march” again for a different reason – to arouse national awareness for the Diaoyu Islands in China.
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