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About China Face

Behind each face is a story, and behind each story are hopes and dreams through which you can find a different facet of the society and country they live in - China.

Launched in March 2010, China Face has been a daily news feature focusing on a Chinese individual, whose life and experience resonates with society's pulse.

Contact: chinaface@chinadaily.com.cn

 
 
Stories from the morgue
His stories come from daily contact with cadavers, but his empathy with them has inspired his best selling novel.
An abiding love for Tibet
Xu Fengxiang is an ecologist with a maverick view of the relationship between human and nature, and a passion for a place she did not visit until later in life.
She brings relics to life
A one-time actress has found her calling as a museum guide in Chengdu.
Joy of giving
A luminous charity ball is just the brighter side of Yang Lan's non-profit work. There's hard work and sweat behind all that glitter.
Hunter to friend
Liang Feng'en used to kill animals, but now applies his knowledge to champion wildlife conservation in the country's Northeast.
Relic restorer
Zhang Guangmin has spent the past 16 years on a most difficult — and costly-game of jigsaw puzzle. On Oct 18, the antique restorer finally placed the last piece of the puzzle — a 2,000-year-old giant water bowl — together.
Underground voices
Xu Zhenfei arrives at the Dongzhimen subway station, one of downtown Beijing's node stops. Unlike the other passengers, who exit the station to go to work, Xu's work starts in the subway.
Lonely tunnel guard always wears a smile
Rail worker Li Yingming has been guarding the Huangtaishan tunnel for eight years, ensuring about 40 trains a day run smoothly through the mountains of Anhui province.
Eye in the sky
Wang Chen, an entrepreneur from Guangdong province's Shenzhen, has spent the past nine years shooting aerial photographs in more than 40 countries, as well as the North and South poles.
Changing his tune
Yu Kuizhi, one of China's most famous Peking Opera actors, celebrates the 40th anniversary of his initiation into the genre this year.
Growing with the grassroots
Rather than head to a Fortune 500 firm after graduating from a top university, Shi Lei has staked his fate with poor farmers in a village.
Her life is death
Death is Chen Jiao's life. The 25-year-old embalmer believes she shares a special relationship with those she prepares for funerals.
Mo Yan earns praise for historical perspectives
As speculations intensify over this year's Nobel Prize in literature, much attention has been focused on Mo Yan, a heavyweight on China's literary scene since the mid-1980s.
Grassroots writer
A ginger vendor in Beijing who didn't finish primary school has become a fresh face on the literary scene. Zhang Yue finds out why.
Ageless mind
A revered orthopedist comes back from retirement as a resource for his medical colleagues, Lin Qi reports.
Power of the sun
Nyima Wangdue's name means 'powerful sun' in the Tibetan language. He may be blind but he leads a full life, Daqiong and Tanzindrolkar discover in Lhasa.
'China's Forrest Gump'
Many people dream of obtaining a Peking University degree. Gan Xiangwei did it his way.
Back to nature
Hainan's Yinggeling Natural Reserve is benefiting from a scientific research and management base built in the biologically diverse tropical forest.
Chinese volunteer workers in Cambodia
Xu Jiatian was a high achiever in college. Instead of climbing the corporate ladder, he is now a volunteer worker in Cambodia.
Unconventional spirituality
Tenzin Dorje is known in Lhasa as the Sixth Balok Rinpoche. Rinpoche is the title given to a tulku - a reincarnated "Living Buddha".
 

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