through five generations of stewardship, the families of qiaolou village have collectively preserved the world’s largest and most concentrated holding of still-fruiting century-old sichuan red tangerine trees (川红橘, citrus reticulata blanco). to keep the trees rooted amid mounting market pressures, the qitian cooperative is attempting a necessarily slow and localised process of naturally sun-drying and ageing the peels of their fruit into chenpi (陈皮) for high-end TCM markets.

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