Posts
All the articles I've posted.
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Wuhan and the Floods: A Yangtze City
The 1931 flood drowned the city. The 1954 flood tested the new republic. The 1998 flood mobilized a nation. A local explains what shaped Wuhan.
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Wuhan in Summer: Surviving the Furnace City
40°C, 90% humidity, air so thick you can wear it. A local explains why people slept on bamboo beds in the streets.
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How Wuhan Talks: Its Impossible Dialect
Wuhan dialect sounds nothing like Mandarin. A local who spent 18 years learning it explains why shopkeepers laugh at him.
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The Wuchang Uprising: How an Empire Ended
On October 10, 1911, soldiers in Wuchang mutinied and accidentally toppled a dynasty. A local walks you through the streets where it happened.
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Wuhan's Lifang: Hankou's Vanishing Alleys
Before the towers, there were the lifang: red-brick alley neighborhoods. Hankou had 200. Fewer than 30 remain.