Phrase of the Week: Tearfully Urge
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
May 10, 2018
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
Nov 14, 2017
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
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...
Aug 29, 2013
Danwei’s Alexander Ye interviews artist Satan Lucky, whose monstrous embodiments of aspects...
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...
Dec 12, 2012
With the apocalypse now less than ten days away, China has been joining in the global festival of panic, resignation and denial at the imminent extinction of humanity. At China Real Time Report, Chao Deng described some Chinese...
Aug 26, 2012
Earlier this month, Foreign Policy compiled a list of the 75 cities projected to be the “world’s most dynamic” by 2025, according to per-capita GDP growth. The list, which is based on a McKinsey Global...
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...
Nov 22, 2009
Huang Qi, an activist who investigated shoddy school construction after the 5.12 Sichuan earthquake in 2008, has been sentenced to three years in jail. From Washington Post: Chinese dissident Huang Qi was sentenced to three...
Apr 28, 2009
Bob Chen of Global Voices looks back on individual citizens’ efforts to uncover the reasons for school collapses: According to an official announcement last year, over 6000 students died at the earthquake. Schools...
Mar 22, 2009
Grieving parents and frustrated citizens are demanding that officials start accounting for why schools were far more prone to collapses than government buildings. From Chris Buckley of Reuters: China’s effort to erase...
Jun 18, 2008
Reuters reports that Zeng Hongling, a strident critic of the ‘tofu dregs construction’ in Sichuan, has been detained by Chinese police. Chinese police have detained a retired teacher on subversion charges after she...
Jun 3, 2008
The Associated Press reports that police are blocking protest efforts of parents who are angered by the shoddy construction of their children’s schools: Angry parents whose children were killed in an earthquake-stricken...
May 22, 2008
This week’s Southern Weekend tells the story of an enraged rescue worker at the site of a school collapse in the Sichuan earthquake disaster zone: The rain pours down. Desperate family members crawl around, hoping, in the...