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The cheers of fans usually echo through Chengdu Stadium, but they're nowhere to be heard.

Last week's massive earthquake in Sichuan province changed that.

Where athletes used to play, children dart in and out of tents housing 8,000 people who now call the stadium home. The quake refugees are just a small sampling of what China's State Council says are the five million people left homeless by the temblor.

The stadium's tent city represents the broken and battered families of southwestern China -- most grieving the loss of family, friends, jobs and homes. Many of them filtered into the provincial capital from surrounding mountains.

At one tent, a 64-year-old woman nurses a badly banged-up husband, while also mourning the loss of five family members. Read full article »

All About China • Sichuan Province