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China Media

By Will James

        Barely a day after ethnic riots befell the city of Urumqi in China’s Western frontier in early July, competing narratives began to emerge in Western and Chinese media. The New York Times painted the rioting Uighurs - a Muslim ethnic minority in Xinjiang province - as victims of government-sponsored colonialism by Han Chinese, the ethnic majority.  >>  

Let the past pay the present

By John Powers

        Behind the walls of the ancient city of Xi’an, a shop keeper is kneeling on the floor in the dust; he is making clothes for the dead.  

        Outside, rows of bare chested men are drinking beers, clacking mahjong tiles and spitting. The shop window is smudged with soot.

        Clearly, not the GDP busting economic indicators  you read about on the Internet.

        Likewise, In the bleak Qinzhou District of Tianshui, laborers at a small rug factory are toiling at make-shift work stations comprised of bare planks of wood supported by stacks of bricks. Not 50 feet away from its entrance-way, a beastly dog chained to a tree menaces passers-by.The carcass of an animal slightly smaller than the dog rots in the dirt close by; a pocket of flies feasts on the remaining gristle>>

April's bike story

By April Warren

        I couldn’t sleep. 

        My body, lying under a white comforter twitched nervously.  The feeling in my stomach, alternated between whizzing butterflies and waves of nausea.  In less than 18 hours I would shuffle onto a plane where my flip-flops would not hit solid ground for another 14 and where the language characters would look like nothing more than a bundle of haphazard sticks.

        I would soon realize that many things I took for granted such as ice cubes, clean sheets, a fork and spoon and toilet paper would not be waiting for me on the other side.Yet I had been anticipating and preparing for this trip for almost six months not to mention the hefty sum of money I had laid out. Oh, and don’t forget the group trip to the infirmary exonerating me from the hysteria of Swine Flu.Little did I know that in two weeks and two days I would step back onto American soil with a duffle full of dirty laundry>>

 

 

The Green path to recover

By Jenny Zou

         wind turbines oscillate silently in the dry summer heat along the outskirts of the Gobi desert. The Spanish produced turbines dot the barren landscape for miles--transforming dusty and otherwise un-arable land into acres of clean, renewable energy.  

        In rural northwest China, wind farms are becoming more common as both Chinese and foreign investors pump capital into a booming alternative energy market.The demand for emission-free energy comes from the central government itself--offering financial backing in the form of tax breaks and subsidies to firms interested in building a "greener" environment.
        Policy makers are calling the initiative a "green recovery path," with many of the incentives aimed at creating jobs and promoting international commerce.>>

 

 

 

 
 
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