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• Oscar Shortlist: China’s Unnatural Disaster

  
  J.B. Spins — Authority: 133
  If revolution ever comes to China, it will probably start in Sichuan Province. That is because there are roughly twenty thousand parents there whose anger will not be bought off or otherwise placated without real justice. Such is the impression left by a recent HBO-produced documentary about the Chinese government’s ...
  6 days ago

• China: Sham Trial of Veteran Human Rights Activist

  
  http://www.hrw.org/en/news — Authority: 687
  (New York) - The conviction of veteran human rights activist Huang Qi on state secrets charges on November 23, 2009, demonstrates the Chinese governments intent to use the judicial apparatus to crush whistleblowers without regard to minimum standards of fairness, Human Rights Watch said today. read more
  2 weeks ago

• China Quake Dissident Jailed for 3 Years

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 620
  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 years’ jail on Monday on charges of illegally possessing state secrets, his wife said, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dam’s Role in Earthquake Revisited

  
  WSJ.com: China Journal — Authority: 144
  A recent scientific study adds to suggestions that a dam built near an underground geological fault line helped trigger the massive 2008 earthquake in Sichuan.
  4 weeks ago

• Bricks That Fall Apart in Your Hands

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 620
  Charles Custer from ChinaGeeks has reposted some photos of the Sichuan rebuilding effort, via journalist Wang Keqin’s blog : Wang Keqin’s blog has a very long accounting (based on this original story) of how the rebuilding is going in earthquake-affected areas like Mianyang. Unfortunately, it seems some of ...
  4 weeks ago

• Ai Weiwei Earthquake Project: “Muyu Diary”

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 620
  ChinaGeeks translates a post from Ai Weiwei’s blog by a volunteer in his Numbers project about his encounter with local police while researching the Sichuan earthquake: Originally, I didn’t want to call, I was just going to walk over there, but the number signs on the street were gone, so I had to make the ...
  5 weeks ago

• Sichuan Earthquake Survivors ‘Poisoned by Pollution’

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 620
  Many victims of the May 2008 earthquake in Sichuan have not yet been able to return home or rebuild, and are now suffering from pollution due to the expansion of a nearby aluminum plant, the Guardian reports : Villagers near the factory in Wenchuan county – the area worst hit by the disaster – have told the ...
  6 weeks ago

• Ai Weiwei Presents New Works Especifically Made for Haus der Kunst in Munich

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 620
  Art Knowledge News reports on Ai Weiwei ’s exhibit “So Sorry” currently being held in Munich at the Haus der Kunst : “How is it possible that such technical refinement and craftsmanship were able to develop and unfold in China under imperial tyranny? For me the Haus der Kunst, which was commissioned by ...
  6 weeks ago

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