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Books: Going Home to China's Abandoned Nuclear city

By David Schonauer   Friday September 20, 2019

Photographer Li Yang’s hometown is named, simply, 404. Built in 1958 in the Gansu province of northeast China and situated within the sandy plains of the Gobi desert, it was China’s largest nuclear base and had a population of nearly 100,000. Now it is abandoned. Yang was born in 404 …

Read the whole story at British Journal of Photography.


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