The Chinese blog 24 Hours Online is written by an old Beijinger who calls himself ‘Temple Tiger’ and describes his blog as a ‘one man newspaper’. He first got famous when he published photographs and reporting about a stabbing he witnessed in Wangfujing in 2003 that the press ignored. Since then he has ridden a bicycle around Ningxia and Inner Mongolia, adopted stray animals, and written about ordinary Chinese people, often the poorest of the poor.
Recently he has been documenting the lives of a group of destitute old people who have been living on the streets in the Qianmen area, and are being ruthlessly displaced by the urban reconstruction taking place in that area.
Tiger Temple’s latest post is titled Premier Wen Jiabao, please visit your neighbors (in Chinese). John Kennedy at Global Voices has translated and explained the whole post in English.
You can read a profile of Tiger Temple by Adrienne Mong on MSNBC.com.