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 the new building materials are just as shoddy, or even worse, then the ones destroyed in the 5/12 earthquake. His post is too long to...
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Sometimes, it’s good to have a fresh perspective around here. In that spirit, we bring you the first of what we hope will be many guest posts. This one is by Josh Johnston. As you may or may not have heard, an apartment building (luckily still unoccupied and under construction) in the compound “Lotus...
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Wang Hongzhe thinks so. The Chinese netizen (going online by the name RNAmonkey) recently conducted a little experiment to see whether Chinese people would pay more attention to a foreign critical voice than a domestic one, and subsequently discussed his results with The New Yorker‘s Evan Osnos. His conclusion? Yes. Wang wrote an article...
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