Phrase of the Week: Tearfully Urge
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
tofu dregs construction
Minitrue: Shoddy High-Speed Rail Construction
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been...
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...
Satan Lucky’s Floating World
Danwei’s Alexander Ye interviews artist Satan Lucky, whose monstrous embodiments of aspects...
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...
China Braces For End Of World
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...
GDP, Infrastructure, Train Crashes and Tofu Bridges
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...
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 Quake Dissident Jailed for 3 Years
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...
A Citizen Campaign to Reveal the Forgotten Dead (1)
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...
China Quake School Toll Stirs Grim Findings, Anger
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...
China Detains Quake School Critic
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...
China Blocks Quake School Protesters
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...
Earthquake Rescue Worker: “Not A Single Bit Of Reinforcement Bar.”
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...
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