A Decade Later, Wenchuan Parents Still Seek Answers
On May 12, 2008, a devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Wenchuan, Sichuan and the surrounding...
May 11, 2018
On May 12, 2008, a devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Wenchuan, Sichuan and the surrounding...
May 10, 2018
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Apr 30, 2015
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Aug 28, 2014
A video from Vox’s Joss Fong explains why the 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Yunnan this month...
Apr 23, 2013
Since Saturday morning, when a 6.6Mw earthquake struck near Sichuan’s Ya’an city, thousands of volunteers from students and white-collar workers to Tibetan monks have descended on the affected area to offer...
Oct 14, 2010
On his New Yorker blog, Evan Osnos writes about Ai Weiwei’s new exhibit at London’s Tate Turbine Hall, Sunflower Seeds, which was closed today for health and safety reasons: The project is almost exactly what it...
Apr 22, 2010
The government has announced that 207 school children died in the Qinghai earthquake and the total official death toll is now 2187, AFP reports: The collapse of school buildings in the 6.9 magnitude quake was responsible for 35...
Apr 20, 2010
Wednesday will be an official day of mourning for the victims of the Yushu earthquake. From the Guardian: China has ordered the halt of public entertainment tomorrow as it holds a day of mourning for the 2,000 victims of last...
Apr 18, 2010
High Peaks Pure Earth has translated a blog post by a Tibetan writing in Chinese posing a series of questions he or she would ask at an official press conference about the recent Qinghai earthquake, such as: After many school...
Apr 5, 2010
Artist/activist Ai Weiwei has produced an eight-part documentary about his last trip to Chengdu in August 2009 to testify on behalf of imprisoned activist Tan Zuoren. The video includes footage of the incident in which Ai was...
Mar 10, 2010
For China Media Project, Qian Gang writes about Premier Wen Jiabao’s comments to the NPC meetings advocating public and media supervision of authorities, in which Wen stated, “We must let the people criticize the...
Feb 8, 2010
Activist Tan Zuoren, who had been investigating the deaths of schoolchildren in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, has been sentenced to five years in prison after being tried in August. From AP: Attorney Pu Zhiqiang said activist Tan...
Feb 4, 2010
The Chinese government is censoring news about the upcoming Oscars after China’s Unnatural Disaster: The Tears of Sichuan Province, an HBO documentary about the children killed in the 2008 Sichuan earthquake, was nominated...
Jan 12, 2010
The BBC program Outlook has posted an interview with Ai Weiwei about his work collecting names of students killed in the Sichuan earthquake, his art, and his father, poet Ai Qing. You can listen to it here on the Outlook site....
Dec 13, 2009
Documentary filmmaker Ai Xiaoming has posted a video (in Chinese) about activist Tan Zuoren’s investigation into schools that collapsed during the 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Tan has since been imprisoned and charged with...
Dec 10, 2009
Sichuan architect Liu Jiakun has constructed a memorial for Hu Huishan, a 15-year-old student who died in the May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake. Details on Liu’s decision to erect the memorial hall from China Daily: Liu got...
Jun 3, 2009
From AP: The publication is obscure and the language technical, but the findings are simple: schools in Sichuan collapsed more easily than government buildings in last year’s massive quake because they were not as well...
May 26, 2009
China Media Project discovers and re-posts an important story that made a brief appearance on the websites of People’s Daily and its spin-off, China Economic Weekly: …This is a story to keep your eyes on — we’ve...