TIMEasia Magazine: After the Boom


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After the Boom
Mao once called the oil town of Daqing a worker's paradise, but the shift to privatization has taken a heavy toll on its inhabitants. Fritz Hoffman documents a once-proud city that has seen better days

Blue-Collar Blues
Oil town Daqing was once a socialist heaven. Now, it's a dead end

A Better Tomorrow
Like millions of other migrants, Mo Yunxiu left the only home she ever knew to make a new life in China's biggest boomtown, Shenzhen. Mark Leong followed Mo on the biggest journey of her life

PHOTOGRAPH FOR TIME BY FRITZ HOFFMANN—DOCUMENTCHINA

BLACK GOLD: A pump draws precious oil from a well near the city square in Daqing

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FROM THE JULY 26 — AUGUST 2, 2004 ISSUE OF TIME MAGAZINE; POSTED MONDAY, JULY 19, 2004