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OneWorld and Radio Netherlands have teamed up to bring you "Intimate China," a multimedia look behind the scenes and along the margins of the world's greatest sporting event, with a special focus on events and news items that affect China and the Chinese themselves.

Members of mountain village Pa Hai's blind orchestra. Every year, they make the journey to about 320 villages in the mountains, playing music and bringing news to each of the isolated communities. © Wang Jing Chun / Radio Netherlands / OneWorld.nl

Behind the Scenes at the Olympic Games

A new Internet project from OneWorld.nl, onzeWereld and Radio Netherlands Worldwide

Hilversum – OneWorld.nl, onzeWereld and Radio Netherlands Worldwide have launched an international Internet project that offers a glimpse behind the scenes of the Beijing Olympics. The Web site www.rnw.nl/intimatechina contains intimate little stories, photographs, and clips of events taking place along the margins of the world’s greatest sporting event, focusing attention on the personal and social circumstances of the Chinese people.

Visitors to the site will also find all kinds of facts about China, its people, and its political and cultural climate: from a story about the working conditions in sports clothing sweatshops to another about Chinese parents who have named their children after the Olympic Games.

Photo series

A special series of photographs from onzeWereld enables visitors to look at the Asian superpower through the eyes of both the Chinese and foreigners who have lived there a long time. The series “Among the Chinese” shows work by students and former students of international photojournalism in Dalian (northeast China).

Click here to visit the Intimate China Web site in English, Spanish, Dutch, or Indonesian.