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Ancient Disappearing Villages of China

Among the falling bricks and dust-covered grounds are the only remnants of once-flourishing locales such as Yuxian in Hebei Province, China. Now abandoned, the forgotten landscape represents the cycle of life as stone structures are slowly reclaimed by Earth. This fact, along with a feeling of nostalgia, is what attracted photographer Maoyuan Cui to it in 1998, where he explored the buildings left behind by the Qing Dynasty.

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