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Sichuan Earthquake Survivors – Photos

In Dujiangyan, I met a group of migrant construction workers taking a lunch break. They have been working in the earthquake zone for a month now, working to clear out the thousands of tons of rubble the earthquake left behind. This man told me he would return to his home province Shaanxi in August, in time to help his family with the harvest.

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Earthquake survivor Li Yan

Lydia Wallace was interning at Danwei when the Sichuan earthquake struck. She is now working for a disaster relief organization in Sichuan and will be publishing stories and photographs about the people she meets. She is also blogging at fiferis.com.

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Sichuan Earthquake Survivors – Photo

In a tent camp set up in a park in Loushui, this boy ran up to me and asked me to take his picture. At first, like many in China he made the peace sign to the camera. When I asked him not to he frowned, thinking, and then saluted.

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Zhao Bandi: art, fashion and carpetbagging

Zhao Bandi is still making a fuss about panda bears, and now he is also going after Hollywood.

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Wen Jiabao visits Gansu and Shaanxi

Today’s Modern Express (现代快报) places a big photo on the front page showing Premier Wen sharing a meal of potato and corn with local farmers in Longnan, Gansu Province.

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Tofu building investigations

Two links about shoddily constructed schools.

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Psychological relief for earthquake victims

Huadan is an organization that provides counseling and psychological therapy to migrant workers and other members of the underclasses. This video shows their new program in Sichuan for earthquake victims.

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Shut out of Dujiangyan

Yin Lichuan reviewed; Chinese basketball; Naomi Klein reviewed; Liu Xiang’s record broken; shut out of Dujiangyan

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Sichuan Earthquake Survivors – Photos

Lydia Wallace photographs Bao Shenyi in the Sichuan earthquake zone.

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Sexy photo earthquake donations

A girl calling herself Xiaoyun or Little Cloud has posted slutty photos of herself to various Chinese websites. She says she was from Sichuan, and she was posting the photos to encourage people to donate money to earthquake relief.

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