Ru Ling loves spending time in skywells. To her, these courtyards of old Chinese houses are the perfect place to be in on a hot and humid day. From 2014 to 2021, Ru lived in a century-old timber-framed home in the village of Guanlu in eastern China’s Anhui province.
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