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Gallery: a modern history of China

19 Jul 2008

A new book reveals China as seen by Chinese photographers, from 1949 to the present day.

Source: Zheng Pingping, 2005

China launches the Shenzou No. 6, its first spacecraft, from Jiuquan Space Center in the Gobi Desert.

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