Family portraits

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These photos are quite wonderful. From China Hush:

This is a “Family Portrait” of China’s 56 ethnic groups. Chen Haiwen, a photographer, recently lead a team of 14 photographers to create a book entitled, “Harmonious China: A Sketch of China’s 56 Ethnicities.” The team spent one year traveling all over China to complete the project. They ended up taking over 5.7 million photographs.

Visit this site to see the large versions. H/T: Nag on the Lake.

Survivors - China

Quake victim: this dog is in the good hands of Chen Yunlian. Screen grab from the L.A. Times.

Chen Yunlian "has become to Chinese dogs what Mother Teresa was to the poor in India," according to Yahoo News:

For 11 years, the 60-year-old former businesswoman has been rescuing strays off the streets. She now cares for about 900 dogs and 100 cats in her own animal shelter built among rice paddies on the southern outskirts of Chengdu, in southwest China's Sichuan province. About 100 of the dogs were rescued from the quake zone, she said.

For a slide show of some of the dogs rescued by Chen Yunlian, visit Yahoo News, and check out the video here, at the L.A. Times site. [That little guy in the photo on the right is cute as a button.]