Cartoonist Unmasked Amid Twitter Emoji Drought
Chinese cartoonist and CDT contributor Badiucao was the subject of a documentary by filmmaker...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Jun 6, 2019
Chinese cartoonist and CDT contributor Badiucao was the subject of a documentary by filmmaker...
Read MorePosted by Josh Rudolph | Mar 21, 2016
As Southeast Asian countries continue to face a severe drought amid an extreme El Niño event,...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Apr 14, 2012
According to Xinhua, nearly 8 million people and over 4.5 million livestock in 13 provinces suffered from inadequate drinking water as of April 5th. Severe drought, usually a characteristic of the north, increasingly afflicts...
Read MorePosted by Anne Henochowicz | Mar 6, 2012
Censorship Vault features previously untranslated censorship instructions from the archives of the...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Sep 15, 2011
Ministry of Tofu has posted a striking set of photos showing small children in Sichuan clinging to cliffside paths with heavy loads of water on their backs. According to the state media, until September 8, altogether 3.41...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | Sep 14, 2011
The frenzy of manufacturing in southern China is fed by a “West to East Electricity Transmission Project”: the South-North Water Diversion Project’s less glamorous sibling. Generation in the west has been hit...
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | Jun 6, 2011
Drought-plagued central China is now preparing for torrential rains, Reuters reports: Rainfall of between 10-152 millimetres could hit China’s parched central provinces of Hunan, Anhui and Jiangxi, the China News website...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | May 29, 2011
Adam Minter of Shanghai Scrap launches his new column at Bloomberg—which “will focus on Chinese opinion flow on a different issue each week”—with a look at a range of perspectives on the Three Gorges Dam....
Read MorePosted by Sophie Beach | May 17, 2011
A long-standing drought is drying up the Yangtze River and surrounding reservoirs. From the New York Times: As of Sunday, 4 medium-size reservoirs and 1,388 small reservoirs in Hubei had dropped below the allowable discharge...
Read MorePosted by Samuel Wade | May 12, 2011
The Yangtze River, which carries 80% of China’s river freight, has been closed to ocean-going vessels in response to historically low water levels. From the AFP: The water level along the lower reaches of the river near...
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