17 Postcards From Our Correspondents Around the World in 2017<br />21, 2017<br />Correspondents for The New York Times reported from more than 140 countries this year,<br />covering war, terrorism, political upheaval, natural disaster and social change.<br />Most of these stories were what we call "journals" — a longstanding weekday feature by Times correspondents around the world<br />that aims to bring readers to places they haven’t been, in the hope of offering insight into a place and culture.<br />A small hip-hop festival on the outskirts of the southwestern city of Chengdu reveals<br />how hip-hop, once an underground subculture, has stormed the Chinese mainstream.<br />Fahim Abed, an Afghan reporter for The Times, followed Mohammed Rahim Khaksar as he tried<br />to deliver the notice for a package for one Atta Mohammed — a common Afghan name.<br />The weirdest town in Canada’s Yukon Territory might be Keno City, a gold-rush-era relic with about a dozen full-time residents, tap water not fit for human consumption<br />and two bars whose owners haven’t been on speaking terms for more than a decade.<br />It marked the country’s celebration of its 100th birthday (or, more accurately, the centennial<br />of its current political structure) in a way that no single event marked its 150th this year.
