Severe Flood Damage Traced to Corruption, Overbuilding
Flooding across central and southern China has killed more than 100 people and submerged countless...
Jul 8, 2016
Flooding across central and southern China has killed more than 100 people and submerged countless...
Mar 6, 2016
Award-winning writer and independent film producer David Bandurski is the editor of the China...
Feb 18, 2016
In an interview with Ian Johnson at The New York Times, political scientist Luigi Tomba of...
Nov 10, 2015
At The New York Times, Patrick Boehler speaks with China Media Project’s David Bandurski...
Jan 6, 2015
China’s urban population has grown faster than any other country’s and is currently...
Mar 26, 2014
China’s leadership has put much energy into renewed urbanization efforts that will have 60...
Mar 18, 2014
Bloomberg reports that as part of renewed urbanization efforts to place more than 60 percent of...
Mar 7, 2014
Agence France-Presse in Anshun (via The South China Morning Post) reports that, in the process of...
Dec 17, 2013
Since coming to power, China’s new leadership has been touting the benefits that increased...
Oct 16, 2013
For Marketplace, Rob Schmitz tells the story of an elderly woman, Xie Guozhen, and her husband who...
Sep 20, 2013
Wired profiles French photographer Eric Leleu and his project Subtitles—an examination,...
Jul 14, 2013
Ian Johnson reports for a New York Times series on mass migration in China that a 200 billion dollar project will relocate 2.4 million farmers from the Shaanxi mountains to towns that have been “built from scratch on...
Jun 17, 2013
As Beijing plans to move hundreds of millions into China’s cities, Tom Phillips reports from Lanzhou New Area, a new city under construction in Gansu province for which 700 mountains were condemned to be flattened: Its...
Jun 16, 2013
A New York Times video and a report by Ian Johnson state that the Chinese government plans to move 250,000,000 people from farms to housing in cities in the next 12 to 15 years with a goal to place 70% of its citizens in urban...
Dec 7, 2012
Late last month, premier-in-waiting Li Keqiang declared that boosting the country’s urban population, which passed 50% of the total a year ago, was China’s most promising avenue for further development. From Caijing:...
Aug 15, 2012
As criticism of land grabs and forced demolitions continues, the Wall Street Journal reports that despite signs of a rebound in the property market, Chinese developers are skittish at land auctions: A number of cities, including...
Aug 12, 2012
The New York Times’ Jane Perlez profiles architect Wang Shu, whose selection as China’s first Pritzker Prize winner in February received a somewhat mixed reaction from some of his countrymen. In awarding this year’s...
May 21, 2012
At TIME’s Ecocentric blog, Kate Springer discusses the problem of subsidence which, according to a recent government report, affects more than fifty cities and around 50,000 square miles of land across China. The issue is...