Wenshu Fan is a native of Erlianhot, Inner Mongolia. A finalist in the 2013 Narrative 30 Below Contest, she received an undergraduate degree in Media at Nottingham Trent University in England (2014). She lives in London.

A Farmer’s Life: Xiwuqi, Inner Mongolia

A Photo Essay

by Wenshu Fan

Back home in Inner Mongolia for my vacation last summer, I visited the Bateer family—farmers living in the grasslands near the town of Xiwuqi. I followed their daily life and their determination to hold on to tradition amid the gradual changes taking place through modernization.

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