Once home to more than 2,000 fishermen, just a handful of people still live in the village of Houtouwan, on Shengshan Island east of Shanghai, China. Every day hundreds of tourists visit the village, making their way on narrow footpaths past tumbledown houses overtaken by vegetation. The remote village, on one of more than 400 islands in the Shengsi archipelago, was abandoned in the early 1990s as first wealthy residents then others moved away, aiming to leave problems with education and food delivery behind them.
