China | A religious revival
Animal spirits
Releasing animals into the wild is in vogue—with unwelcome consequences
|SHANGHAI
EVERY Saturday morning hundreds of devotees gather by Shanghai’s Huangpu river to liberate fish. Over three hours some 2,000 loach are tipped into the murky waters to the sound of chants.
This article appeared in the China section of the print edition under the headline “Animal spirits”
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