sanmenxia

China's Biggest Relocation Project Yet

At GlobalPost, Kathleen McLaughlin describes the impact of forced relocation on the 1.5 million pushed aside by the Three Gorges Dam, and the 3 million now facing a similar fate in Shaanxi. In the best-case situations, those who...

Dam Expose Author Released on Bail After Public Pressure

Writer Xie Chaoping has been released on bail. From South China Morning Post: A writer was released yesterday after 29 days in detention for publishing a book exposing government wrongdoing and the plight of migrants during the...

New Dam Repeats ‘Stupid Mistake’

From the FInancial Times: To its opponents, China’s Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze River is all the more tragic because it has a historical precedent. Built in the 1950s, the huge Sanmenxia – literally Three Gates Gorge – dam...

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