A Decade Later, Wenchuan Parents Still Seek Answers
On May 12, 2008, a devastating 7.9-magnitude earthquake hit Wenchuan, Sichuan and the surrounding...
School Collapse
Phrase of the Week: Tearfully Urge
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Words of the Week: Tearfully Urge
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
What a Strong Earthquake Does in China vs. the U.S.
A video from Vox’s Joss Fong explains why the 6.1 magnitude earthquake in Yunnan this month...
Volunteers Flocking to Quake Zone Asked to Turn Back
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...
Ai Weiwei at the Tate Turbine Hall: Exhibit Closed
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...
China Quake Killed 207 Schoolchildren: State Media
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...
China Declares National Mourning for Yushu Quake Victims (Updated)
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...
Earthquake in Tibet: A Tibetan Blogger Asks…
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...
Ai Weiwei (艾未未): Laoma Tihua (老妈蹄花) (Video) (Updated)
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...
Activists, Journalists Ask NPC for Transparency in Sichuan Earthquake Investigation
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...
China Sentences Quake Activist to 5 Years’ Jail
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...
China Censors Oscar Nominations
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...
BBC Outlook: Interview with Ai Weiwei
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....
Video: Tan Zuoren’s Sichuan Earthquake Investigation
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...
Liu Jiakun (刘家琨): Hu Huishan Memorial
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...
China Book On Sichuan Quake Counters Gov’t Stance
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...
A News Story on School Collapses Tantalizes, then Disappears
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...
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