For the Miao minority living in the mountains of Rongjiang, a lack of transportation access has helped keep their traditions and culture intact. Slowly, however, change is coming.
Many villagers have fled Xingwang village in Hubei province, whose waters are coursing with Hepatitis B and other disease. Those who remain struggle against discrimination and the constant threat of infection.
At a frontier outpost between China and Vietnam, thriving trade has attracted illegal immigrants, whom the locals depend on for labor and side incomes.
In a vast, unpopulated region bordering Tibet, stalwart communities of rangers edure perpetual solitude and the forces of the nature while guarding over an endangered antelope.
