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New buildings tower over the Wu River.
Wu River
New buildings tower over the Wu River.
Return to River Town
In 1996 a Peace Corps volunteer arrived in Fuling, a sleepy town on the Yangtze, to teach English. He went back recently to find the landscape—and his former students—transformed.
This story appears in the March 2013 issue of National Geographic magazine.
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