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Lam Qua's Portrait Number 6.

medical libraries

A Chinese Artist's Humanizing 19th-Century Portraits of Disfigured Patients

Lam Qua's paintings depicting people with huge, bulbous tumors remain mesmerizing.

By Veronique Greenwood
Immigrants walking across the pier at Ellis Island, early 20th century.

genetics

In China, Searching to Fill Mysterious Gaps in the Family Tree

China’s revolution made it difficult for Chinese abroad to stay in contact with their families. Now many in the diaspora are searching for their roots.

By Veronique Greenwood
The mobile lounge at Dulles Airport in action, 1960s. (Photo: Library of Congress/LC-DIG-krb-00774)

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The Lonely Ballad of the Dulles Airport Mobile Lounge

A high-tech room on wheels and the airport that might have been.

By Veronique Greenwood
Kaiping Diaolou

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The Lovely Chinese Watchtowers Built with Proceeds from the California Gold Rush

By Veronique Greenwood

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