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• Photos: China’s Creeping Sands

  

  ChinaDialogue has posted a slideshow of stunning images documenting the desertification of China by photographer Sean Gallagher:

  Desertification is the gradual transformation of arable and habitable land into desert, normally caused by climate change or the destructive use of land. Each year, desertification and drought account for US$42 billion loss in food productivity worldwide.

  It is estimated that nearly 20% of China’s land area, some 1.74 million square kilometres, is now classified as desert. Affecting the lives of an estimated 400 million people, it is one of the most important environmental issues in China today.

  Gallagher’s notes from the field can be read here.

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  • June 27, 2009 1:13 PM

• Photo: Behind the Scenes - A New Angle on Tank Man

  

  From the New York Times blog:

  Terril Jones had only shown the photograph to friends.

  While working as a reporter in Beijing during the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989, he shot many photographs and recorded several hours of video. It wasn’t until weeks afterwards, when he had returned to Japan, that he discovered the magnitude of what he had captured — an iconic moment in history from an entirely unique angle.

  His version of the tank man has never been published until now.

  For 20 years the negatives rested in Mr. Jones’ belongings, following him across the world throughout his career as a journalist. He contacted The New York Times after reading the accounts of the other four photographers in Wednesday’s Lens blog.

  Mr. Jones’ angle on the historic encounter is vastly different from four other versions shot that day, taken at eye level moments before the tanks stopped at the feet of the lone protester. Wildly chaotic, a man ducks in the foreground, reacting from gunfire coming from the tanks. Another flashes a near-smile. Another pedals his bike, seemingly passive as the tanks rumble towards confrontation.

  The photograph encourages the viewer to reevaluate the famous encounter. Unlike the other four versions, we are given a sense of what it was like on the ground as the tanks heaved forward, the man’s act of defiance escalated by the flight of others.

  

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  • June 4, 2009 11:14 PM

• Photos: First Anniversary of the Sichuan Province Earthquake

  

  From AP:

  China marked the first anniversary of a massive earthquake on Tuesday in a somber, nationally televised ceremony filled with flowers and speeches, as the normally distant Chinese leadership provided an unusually cathartic public moment. The 30-minute memorial service in front of a destroyed school in the Sichuan province town of Yingxiu followed a minute of silence that began at 2:28 p.m. (0628 GMT), the moment the magnitude-7.9 temblor shook China — and some countries beyond — on May 12, 2008. Villages were toppled or buried and landslides raked mountains as large portions of Sichuan — where the quake was centered — and two neighboring provinces were wrecked. Nearly 90,000 people were killed or never found, and 5 million were made homeless in the deadliest earthquake to hit in decades. (Click here to see the 18 images)

  

  

  

  

  

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  • May 17, 2009 4:51 AM

• Photos: Hu Jintao’s High School Years

  

  You never know when you will be searching the “wrong words” in the Chinese blogosphere. Searching “Hu Jintao, middle school” on Google’s Chinese blog search produces the message: Your search results may be related to content which does not accord with relevant laws, regulations or policy, and therefore cannot be displayed. 搜索结果可能涉及不符合相关法律法规和政策的内容，无法显示.

  But the following photos do exist in the Chinese blogosphere and BBS; they are from bbs.Chinanews, blog.sina.com and bbs.voc.com.cn.

  

  Hu Jintao’s middle school - Taizhou Middle School, Jiangsu Province.

    

  Hu Jintao’s seat in a classroom.

  
  What are they looking at? Any photos?

  

  Hu Jintao: first one on the right in the second row.

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  • May 11, 2009 4:37 PM

• Photos: Jiang and Hu in the Party Congress

  

  While the Party leaders’ names are sensitive words in Chinese cyberspace, the following photos are being distributed by bloggers, with some making comments about the apparent differences between the personalities of Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao:

  From Xisiwuya’s blog:

  

  

  

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  • March 27, 2009 9:30 PM

• Photos: Xinhua and Photoshop

  

  A poster on a Sohu blog writes about Xinhua’s use of image doctoring. Below are photos with translated commentary:

  

  Left: “Memorial tablet for soldiers who lost their lives in Papua New Guinea” (巴纽阵亡将士之灵位), from Xinhua
  Right: Original tablet image, “Memorial tablet for Republic of China’s Armed Forces soldiers who lost their lives in Papua New Guinea” (中华民国国军于巴纽阵亡将士之灵位), from Taiwan Central News Agency. Other views of the tablet can be seen at BBC and Sina Taiwan.

  Past Photoshop incidents have been more humorous. Captions, translated:

  
  Twins! 双胞胎

  
  Six legs. 六条腿

  

  Read also: Secret Behind Chairman Mao’s Image: Every Photo Had Been Retouched on CDT.

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  • March 18, 2009 5:36 AM

• Photo Series: Villages Filled with E-waste

  

  Wenxuecity.com carries some photos taken in Guiyu, Guangdong, and presents the scenes of the e-waste “recycling” processes in the villages of the trash town. Rivers run black, the air is filled with toxic fumes and dangerous smoke. Water is not drinkable of course, so locals rely on bottled water transported from out of town for drinking and other living purposes. Indeed, transporting water has become an important business in town as a result. Lead poisoning is among the highest here as heavy metals leak into the water system and the air.

  Please also see a CDT highlight video post Electronic Waste Documentary Preview by Michael Zhao.

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  • March 14, 2009 9:03 PM

• Slideshow: A Wedding in Rural Yunnan

  

  Photographer and blogger “Flying Bird and Fish” posted a group of photos of a wedding in rural Yunnan. He says that generally Chinese parents don’t hesitate to spend most of their savings on their children’s weddings and they try their best to make the wedding nice and festive. However, the wedding style in rural area is still very different from those in cities. From blog.sina.com.cn:

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  • March 10, 2009 8:30 PM

• Slideshow: Road to School

  

  A blogger “Flying Bird and Fish” posted a series of photos he took in a mountain area showing some rural children walking to school in a dangerous cliff road. He says that he was scared to see the scene. His hands were sweating and his legs were even trembling while taking photos of the children, via blog.sina.com.cn:

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  • March 1, 2009 7:26 PM

• Photo Series: Memories of 2008 in Shanxi

  

  These photos are from “Shanxi Evening,” a local newspaper in Datong, carried by News.QQ.com:

  - See also Photo Series: Memories of 2008 in Hubei by CDT

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  • February 26, 2009 10:30 PM

• Photo Series: A Collection of Photo Stories(2)

  

  These photos are from fengniao.com and QQ.com and they reflect the grassroots’ recent life in China.

  
  

  Photo source: fengniao.com, CCN, QQ.com

  - See also Photo Series: A Collection of Photo Stories(1)

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  • February 23, 2009 8:04 PM

• Photo Series: Memories of 2008 in Hubei

  

  This slideshow is a collection of photos, most of which were taken in Hubei in 2008. It reflects daily life and also the impact of the Olympic Games on the common people. It also documents some scenes of the Sichuan Earthquake, via QQ.com:

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  • February 17, 2009 10:04 PM

• Photo Series: 2009 Spring Festival Photo Collection

  

  Fengniao posted a series of photos representing people’s activities during the Spring Festival:

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  • February 16, 2009 11:06 AM

• Photos: China’s Lantern Festival, and an Unfortunate Ending

  

  The Boston Globe has posted a photo series of Lantern Festival celebrated around China, ending with the fire at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Beijing:

  Marking the end of the Chinese New Year, the Lantern Festival takes place on the 15th day of the year - during the first full moon. People across Mainland China and Taiwan celebrate the festival in many colorful ways, from fiery folk traditions to firework displays and laser shows. Unfortunately, this year’s festival ended on a somewhat sour note as an unauthorized fireworks show set an unoccupied skyscraper on fire in downtown Beijing, and one firefighter lost his life fighting the blaze. Collected here are 27 photos of the festival, and a handful from the Mandarin Oriental Hotel fire in Beijing.

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  • February 11, 2009 10:03 PM

• Photo: A Countryside New Year Couplet

  

  The following photo is being quietly spread through Chinese blogs and BBS, such as this one. The photo was taken in a small town during the Chinese New Year 2009, where a huge new years couplet hanging over the road read:

  Eyes of the people like the gaze of a god can penetrate bones
  Hearts of the people like the scales of justice can measure the world
  Wish all uncorrupted officials a peaceful life!

  众眼金睛透筋骨
  民心如秤秤天地
  祝天下未贪之官一生平安!

  

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  • February 7, 2009 12:11 AM

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