A LONG RIDE TOWARD A NEW CHINA

2013 | 6 mins. | CHINA | New York Times

Dir/Prod/Edit/Cinematog: Stephen Maing

Every summer, the 59-year-old Chinese blogger Zhang Shihe rides his bicycle thousands of miles to the plateaus, deserts and hinterlands of North Central China. In this Op-Doc video, we meet Mr. Zhang, known to his many followers online as “Tiger Temple,” as he goes to great lengths to document the stories of struggling rural villagers whose voices are seldom heard in China’s state-monitored media.

This Op-Doc was published on May 14, 2013 in the Opinion section of the NYT.