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The Time China Blog has posted a Wall Street Journal article about the detention of a prominent environmental activist: An environmental activist famous for battling to clean up one of China’s most polluted lakes has been detained, his family and lawyers said. Wu Lihong, 39 years old, was detained last week by police in his […]
Read MoreNPR has a report about forced abortions in China: Dozens of women in southwest China have recently been forced into abortions, some late in their pregnancies. It’s not the first time a local government has been accused of such an action, but it’s surprising because China has relaxed its law that limits each family to […]
Read MoreFrom the BBC: More than 10% of China’s farm land is polluted, posing a “severe threat” to the nation’s food production, state media reports. Arable land shrank by nearly 307,000 hectares (760,000 acres) in the first 10 months of 2006, government officials were quoted as saying. Excessive fertiliser use, polluted water, heavy metals and solid […]
Read MoreYew Leong Lee, a Singaporean writer and video artist, writes about his relationship with a migrant worker during a visit to Shanghai, in the New York Times: In 2005, I took a year off from my graduate studies in the States to teach art at a university in Kunming, in southwestern China. At 28, I […]
Read MoreFrom the Jamestown Foundation’s China Brief: That the tightly controlled Chinese media even covered such a story came as much of a surprise, but Wu Ping’s nail house emerged just as the National People’s Congress was passing a new property rights law that purports to protect individual homeowners. This may have been more of an […]
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