Frontline/World’s Rough Cut series is featuring a short video, produced by UC Berkeley Journalism School student Duane Moles (assisted by CDT’s own Wu Nan), about coal mining in China:
I headed west from Beijing to coal country, Shanxi Province, as part of a team of three reporters. Our plan was to see what life was like in a small village in the region. We knew that in November 2006 a villager named Hao Hualin had talked to Chinese news outlets about how the mines were burrowing beneath his village, causing homes to collapse. But we had no idea about the consequences of his speaking out. [Watch it here]
