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Time and Tide: Changing Times #8 Disappearing alongside the old cities are the simpler ways of life, such as this open-air barber in Wushan. [Wushan June 2003]

Time and Tide: Changing Times #7 The modern dragonboat 'race' seen in the Three Gorges region is often more about entertainment and leisure rather than keeping the tradition alive. [Zigui Oct 03 2006.]

Time and Tide: Changing Times #6 Rapid urbanization in the Three Gorges region has raised questions about whether age-old traditions, such as the annual dragon-boat race, would survive into the future. Senior residents are pessimistic, saying that…

Time and Tide: Changing Times #5 This luxury housing project, sited just across the Three Gorges Dam, offers what the developer touts as an unobstructed lakeside view of the country's biggest engineering marvel. [Nov07 2008]

Time and Tide: Changing Times #4 After the old buildings came down, it was not long before cities along the Three Gorges reservoir, such as Wanzhou here, began witnessing the advent of that defining urban trend in modern China - the property boom.…

Time and Tide: Changing Times #3 After the old buildings came down, it was not long before cities along the Three Gorges reservoir began witnessing the advent of that defining urban trend in modern China - the property boom. While the property…

Time and Tide: Changing Times #2 The images that left the greatest impression on my first trip to the region in June 2003 were those of the desolate old cities dotting the shoreline, and the residents who kept returning to the post-apocalyptic…

Time and Tide: Changing Times #1 The rising water level is but one facet of the massive changes brought about by the Three Gorges Dam over the last five years. Old cities and towns, untouched for centuries, have given way to brightly painted and…

Time and Tide: Mounting Concerns #5 Of all the changes the dam has brought, the one that concerns the locals most is their job. Many fishermen in the region have hung up their nets for good, complaining that the fish stock had declined too rapidly…

Time and Tide: Mounting Concerns #4 Pollution: Polluting industries, such this cement factory along the Wu Gorge, are being phased out as part of plans to protect the environment in the Three Gorges reservoir area. But local environmentalists fear…