reportage Under a Chinese cloud
Left: Qarhan, Amdo, workers digging at the Dabsan Hu salt lake. Northern Tibet is rich in salt and potash. This plant, owned by the Chinese Qinghai Potash Company, has 4,000 employees.
Right: Bayi, Nyingchi, a young Tibetan prostitute who left her family and village to work in a small brothel in Bayi. The majority of the town’s 30,000 population are Chinese soldiers
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