Tag Archives: earthquakes

Preserving the Premier’s chalk marks

Wen Jiabao writes 多难兴邦 on a blackboard in Beichuan. It is to be preserved as a cultural relic.

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Photos from the Good Luck Games

The earthquake; Landslides; Soho Sanlitun; Jia Zhangke; Wen Jiabao; safe schools; Good Luck Games; missing pandas; the Red Cross; blood banks; an aftershock; visa problems.

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Google’s evidence of a moment of mourning

A momentary drop in Google searches; Sino-US matchup; death tolls; letters from Sichuan; Tudou off the blacklist; free press; Uighur forum shutdown.

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More thoughts on the quake

Raymond Zhou, Tim Johnson, and the New York Times on the earthquake.

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Candlelight vigil for earthquake victims in Shanghai

There will be a public candlelight vigil tonight (2008.05.19) in Shanghai at People’s Square for the Wenchuan earthquake victims.

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The English voice of an animated pangolin

Voicing the Gourd Brothers cartoon; nationalism and business; online youth trends; much more on the Sichuan earthquake; Chinese tourists to the USA.

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CCTV disaster rate card

CCTV has a rate card for commercials during its live earthquake broadcasts.

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Death estimate over 50,000

The top headline of today’s The Beijing News (新京报) announces that Deaths estimated over 50,000 in Sichuan

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Front page layouts for the Sichuan earthquake

Shenyang Evening News (沈阳晚报) features Premier Wen Jiabao on the cover.

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The state media’s performance on the earthquake story

CCTV, transparency, and blind protocol; Qian Gang on the earthquake; 60,000 missing.

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