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A new report out by Canadian group Probe International is questioning whether the Sichuan quake may be the result of the filling of the Three Gorges Dam. Wait, before you shake your head at the "Western bias" - they've Chinese scientists on this too. Since initially filling the dam there has been a couple thousand micro-quakes, and that it rests on a couple fault lines makes one have to at least consider there might be consequences of some so
An additional first-hand account of the Sichuan quake from a English-language Chengdu blogger, KMM. "But even though I’m convinced staying in the fifth floor of my apartment is perfectly safe, I’ve moved back outside, sitting in the grass, because damn it when the floor keeps moving under your feet, it doesn’t matter how much you know your safe, you still feel you better get out as fast as possible."
A bit of interesting commentary from a long-overseas Chinese who admits she can't help but feel the call to nationalism these days. She also raises an interesting question on why the NYT's coverage of the recent rally in New York for Chinese pride wasn't just lacking, but in fact, was missing.
The knuckfuts from Westboro Baptist Church are at it again, having announced plans to travel to China and picket the Beijing Olympics against a "godless, filthy, sodomite China". You just know these dipshits will get visas too.
A Q&A with acclaimed documentarian Tan Siok Siok about her new film Boomtown Beijing - a film that captures the Chinese capital the summer before the Olympics. Be sure to also check out the film's trailer and links.
Paul Denlinger at China Vortex shares some good commentary on this week's Economist lead article about China. Essentially the article states that the angry nationalism that has swept China isn't actually at Western nations and Western media's continual mis-representation of the country, but rath
In the newest Lost Laowai post, John raises some interesting questions about whether being "Chinese" is actually the multi-ethnic melting pot the CPC brochures tout, or if it is a highly fragmented collection of close-knit pockets.
Jason at Over And Out translates a QQ forward of a different sort - a Q&A with a young Chinese writer who is, of all things, speaking reason in these turbulent times.
Matt shares some good advice for current and prospective ESL teachers on some of the responsibilities that fall on their shoulders - unknowingly or not - and also warns of some lines not to cross.
As Beijing Olympics quickly sink further in the mire of protest, boycotts and childish name-calling from both sides of the globe, I pause for a moment of rantamantation.
Oiwan Lam has translated an interesting article by Ip Iam-chong that originally ran in Ming Pao Daily and discusses China's "610 Office" whose mandate is to "coordinate the collection of information, monitor and arrest dissents across the country". The comparison of this unit and the Gestapo t
