From The New York Times:
Had she been younger, Liao Cuiying might have been mistaken for pregnant, standing beside a watery ditch with a hard, distended belly that spoke not of imminent life but approaching death.
Her village is surrounded by Dongting Lake, an immense inkblot of brown water that sustains villages of fishermen and farmers. Mrs. Liao, 55, had regularly washed her vegetables in a nearby stream and cut wood in the damp soil beside the lake.
