Phrase of the Week: Tearfully Urge
The Word of the Week comes from the Grass-Mud Horse Lexicon, a glossary of terms created by...
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Typhoon Haiyan Through the Lens of China’s 2008 Quake
At the New York Times, Austin Ramzy compares China’s 2008 Wenchuan earthquake with the...
Ministry of Truth: Anniversary of Sichuan Quake
The following censorship instructions, issued to the media by government authorities, have been leaked and distributed online. Central Propaganda Department: Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of the Wenchuan earthquake. Please...
Han Han: The Liberation of Shifang
China’s rascal literatus Han Han has tackled the violent crackdown on unarmed protesters in...
Nanjing Massacre Becomes a Political Football
As reactions to Nagoya mayor Kawamura Takashi’s denial of the Nanjing Massacre rumble on, Adam Minter examines an emerging discussion about ‘ownership’ of China’s history: … [T]he Chinese officially claim...
Drought? Earthquake? Blame the Three-Gorges Dam
Adam Minter of Shanghai Scrap launches his new column at Bloomberg—which “will focus on Chinese opinion flow on a different issue each week”—with a look at a range of perspectives on the Three Gorges Dam....
The Zhouqu Mudslide: “The National Ecological Disaster in Microcosm.”
At China Dialogue, Jiang Gaoming examines the role of human activity in last year’s deadly Zhouqu mudslide: Zhouqu county, in China’s north-western province of Gansu, was once known for its forests, rich water resources,...
The Sichuan Earthquake’s Lessons for Dam Builders
Given their relatively short lifetimes to date, modern dams remain generally untested against real-world seismic activity. A report from the International Commission On Large Dams considers the lessons learned from the 2008...
Photo: Yingxiu, Wenchuan, two years after the earthquake, by wu fake
Yingxiu, Wenchuan, two years after the earthquake, by wu fake
Photo: A worker in Wenchuan County, Sichuan, mixes cement in front of a billboard advertising new government-subsidized housing, by hunxue-er
A worker in Wenchuan County, Sichuan, mixes cement in front of a billboard advertising new government-subsidized housing, by hunxue-er
Flood Fears Prompt Mass Evacuations in China
The earthquake nightmare is not over for many residents of Sichuan as the rainy season approaches, according to this Reuters report: Authorities in Aba prefecture had moved 72,000 people living in “highly dangerous...
Memorial Video: “China Shaken”
Yet another sad video story to present after “eDump.” But this one was so heartbreaking to make that my laptop crashed right after I finished editing it at 3 am on Saturday, May 24 (true story). The earthquake and...
Slideshow: Let’s Wish Them Well – Wenchuan before the Quake
Bai Chengyu, who writes a blog about micro-credit projects, posted the following photos on May 14 of the local Qiang people he met during a trip to Wenchuan, the epicenter of the recent earthquake, in June 2007. He writes,...
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