Tag Archives: Sichuan

Two accidents that killed 29 people in two days

Two stories have shocked the Chinese press: 7 deaths in an internet cafe in Guizhou province caused by “chemicals illegally stored in an adjacent room,” and a fire at a Sichuan grassland where “the dead are comprised of 15 soldiers, five villagers and two forest workers.”

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Three suns in Sichuan — UFOs or sun dogs?

8pm, July 26: three suns appear over Leshan, Sichuan Province.

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Sala

Music from the Sichuan quake zone.

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Afterquake: music made in Sichuan

A Sexy Beijing video of Abigail Washburn and Dave Liang of the Shanghai Restoration Project making music with children who survived the May 12, 2008 Sichuan earthquake, using folk songs sung by the children as well as sounds of their parents rebuilding their houses with bricks and mortar.

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Subway trains to shelter Sichuan homeless

An ingenious use of decommissioned subway cars provides an immediate solution for a few of the thousands left homeless by the devastating earthquake in Sichuan.

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Hu Jintao is also grandpa

‘Grandpa’ Hu Jintao welcomes children from the earthquake zone to Zhongnanhai.

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U.S. earthquake web page blocked?

An aftershock in Sichuan’s earthquake zone, and the a blocked web page.

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A younger, thinner and taller president

A painting portrays China’s leaders in the earthquake zone.

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Earthquake survivor Mi Zhongying

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 www.fiferis.com.

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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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