Infographics: Natural Growth Rate, Population, Birth Rate, Death Rate in China
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- Created: 15 April 2013
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4 interesting infographics on Natural Growth Rate, Population at the end of the year, Birth Rate, Death Rate in China. Data from National Bureau of Statistics of China.
25 Western Depictions of Crime and Punishment during Qing Dinasty - part one
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- Created: 13 April 2013
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This collection of 51 images on crime and punishment in late Imperial China is gleaned from the 19th century Westerners’ China travelogues at the George Peabody Library.
Far East Film Festival 15, official lineup
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- Created: 12 April 2013
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Udine - The line up of the Far East Film Festival 15 was released to the Press today. The 2013 edition (19th to 27th of April), which will present 57 titles (in addition to 6 shorts of the Hong Kong Freshwave, 3 titles with and by King Hu and a tribute to Mario O'Hara), will present the Lifetime Achievement Award to the world ambassador of Korean culture: the great Kim Dong-ho.
Hong Kong Cage dwellers
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- Created: 09 April 2013
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When we think about Hong Kong often images of shiny skyscrapers and colorful neon signs come to mind.
MADE IN JAPAN - Three of the most representative films of the 2013 edition are from Japan
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- Created: 01 April 2013
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Three of the most representative films of the 2013 edition are from Japan: I Have to Buy New Shoes by Eriko Kitagawa, See You Tomorrow, Everyone by Yoshihiro Nakamura and A Story of Yonosuke by Shuichi Okita.
110 kids: photo project on Chinese Street Children
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- Created: 28 March 2013
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Most of the shots were taken in the narrow streets of Kunming, many of those streets no longer exist, having been wiped out and demolished by bulldozers. Now, where the children portrayed in the photos lived and played, there are construction sites, luxury buildings and shopping malls.
41 propaganda posters for Chinese children
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- Created: 25 March 2013
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A unique collection of vintage propaganda posters directed to children.
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22 images of police raids on brothels in China
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- Created: 25 March 2013
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From time to time in major Chinese sites are posted pictures of police raids on brothels.
City Eraser: wandering around destroyed cities
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- Created: 23 March 2013
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Today, anywhere in China. Everyday, millions of square meters of old slums are torn down to make room for luxury condos and shopping malls.
10 beautiful pictures of Mongolia in 1913
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- Created: 15 March 2013
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Mongolia declared its independence from China in 1911.
12 rare pictures: removing dead bodies teams in China (1948)
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- Created: 06 March 2013
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The disastrous years of the War of Resistance against Japanese aggression and the War of Liberation devastated China: dead bodies were scattered along Chinese roads.
Home Containers city in Shanghai
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- Created: 05 March 2013
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Many disused containers near Shanghai have been converted into houses.
Realistic painting in tree cavities
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- Created: 04 March 2013
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A twenty-two years old Chinese student in Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province, from middle of January 2013 has become famous in the city.
The first photographs of nude art in China (15 rare images)
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- Created: 20 February 2013
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Artistic nude and human body model were introduced in China about a century ago by Chinese students who studied abroad and later returned bringing with them not only foreign ideologies and sciences, but also something more.
Pollution in China - Toxic Linfen
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- Created: 14 February 2013
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A documentary by Vice investigating the devastating effects of pollution in China.
36 Chinese advertising posters of the 30s
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- Created: 13 February 2013
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Before the advent of the Communist regime in 1949, China, and especially Shanghai began to experience some forms of advertising borrowed from the West.
FAR EAST FILM FESTIVAL 15 - UDINE FILM FESTIVAL AWARDS THE GREAT KIM DONG-HO!
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- Created: 12 February 2013
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UDINE – The gaze focused on the present and the future of Asian film, through 60 titles that draw on the best productions in recent months, and a tribute to the world ambassador of Korean culture: the great Kim Dong-ho! This is the fifteenth – much awaited – edition of the Far East Film Festival. Here is the window that will open up, from April 19 to 27, on the Far East...
Lost pyramids of Wuhan
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- Created: 28 January 2013
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At the Moshan Scenic Area, near Wuhan, amongst an overgrowth of dense bushes and thick grass, lie two abandoned pyramids. The structures, designed as a tourist attraction, were never completed because of the poor conditions of the roads.
Spinner 360 in Wonderland
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- Created: 22 January 2013
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Dominique Musorrafiti produced this gallery with her Spinner 360 and a Lomography CN 400 film.
Five must-see destinations in China
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- Created: 11 January 2013
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In recent years, China has become not only an economic giant but also an increasingly important destination for international tourism.
Bizarre Kingdom of the Little People shot on film
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- Created: 13 December 2012
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Shiny Little People!
Guys Who Wear Women's Clothes: 25 images
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- Created: 09 December 2012
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Last month, a Chinese senior has become very popular via offbeatchina.
Chinese Mortuary providing massages to the deads
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- Created: 07 December 2012
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During the last edition of an International fair of funeral services held in Wuhan, a Chinese company presented a special treatment for the dead, offering massages and spa.
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A live-animal transport truck converted into a house
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- Created: 06 December 2012
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A small live-animal transport truck has been transformed into a house by a Kunming's couple.
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Real life vs Ideal life in China
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- Created: 03 December 2012
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Chinese photographer Ni Weihua presented an alternative approach to the reality of China's cities.
Postcards of slow slicing during Qing Dinasty (Graphic content)
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- Created: 03 December 2012
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A series of French postcards depicting one of the most gruesome punishment in China: Death by a thousands cuts (Lingchi).
The slow death of Chinese rural circuses
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- Created: 29 November 2012
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Yongqiao, in northern Anhui, is considered the birthplace of Chinese circus with more than 300 companies, employing over 20,000 people.
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Two Generations of Contemporary Chinese Art
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- Created: 26 November 2012
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Brian Wallace, founding director of Red Gate Gallery, is pleased to announce the return of the gallery’s 20thAnniversary Exhibition – Two Generations of Contemporary Chinese Art.
Longting Magic Well
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- Created: 25 November 2012
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In Longting, Xintai, Shandong, villagers in the course of 10 years built a huge stone well (18 meters wide and 28 deep).
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Chinese kids army against Japan
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- Created: 23 November 2012
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Small People Liberation Army to conquer Diaoyu Island! In a kindergarten of Zhejiang province was organized a demonstration to defend the Diaoyu Islands.
A tragic episode of cannibalism during the famine of the Great Leap Forward (Graphic Content)
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- Created: 23 November 2012
- Written by Matteo Damiani
During the disastrous country renovation of the Great Leap Forward, China experienced one of its darkest periods, called the Three Years of Great Chinese Famine.
A nail house in the middle of the road
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- Created: 22 November 2012
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In Wenling, Zhejiang Province, in the middle of a new road, not far from the railway station, there is a "nail house".
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The dumbest thief wears a stool instead of balaclavas
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- Created: 21 November 2012
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Probably was too late to turn back, once detected the presence of surveillance cameras in the place where he had slipped.
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21 crazy buildings in China
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- Created: 20 November 2012
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Chinese website 163.com, compiled a gallery of the 21 craziest buildings built in recent decades in China.
Scandal at Chinese Motorshow: baby models in bikini
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- Created: 19 November 2012
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Journalist Ching Ming, invited to Wuhan International Convention & Exhibition Centre, a couple of days ago, reviewed the show from an unexpected point of view.
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Chinese Women of America anti Japanese demonstrations in New York in 1938: 15 beautiful pictures
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- Created: 16 November 2012
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A fundraiser parade of Chinese beauty activists organized by overseas Chinese in order to fund anti Japanese activities in Wuhan.
Shanghai 1949, on the eve of the communist liberation
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- Created: 09 November 2012
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Within a few years, the city seemed to be destined to become a cosmopolitan economic and cultural capital of East Asia, closed in on itself.
Heroes Next Door, daily routine of Superheroes in Hong Kong: 28 images
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- Created: 06 November 2012
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Chow Kar Hoo is an emerging artist specialized in fine art photography. Since his graduation in June, he started his career by setting up Overnight Studio with the help of some friend.
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Our lives in a public toilet
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- Created: 05 November 2012
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In Guangzhou city , a family of three people lives in the building of public toilets. Liao Xiaoming, from Maoming, Chaozhou Xuan and Wang Na, left their town to take advantage of the possibility of free education, which provides the city of Guangzhou.
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The art of Jiang Shan: 22 images
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- Created: 05 November 2012
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Jiang Shan is a Chinese artist who lives in London and works as a creative designer in England for Ilovedust since 2005.
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Fluid Hong Kong
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- Created: 05 November 2012
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Every day, Hong Kong is crossed by a continuous flow of people, cars and lights moving through the streets of the city. At the same time there is also loneliness, fixity and permanence.
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30 dramatic images of the 1942 Henan famine
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- Created: 03 November 2012
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Henan Province was hit by a terrible famine between the summer of 1942 and the spring of 1943 that led to the death of 3 million people (other sources report 1 million deaths).
Wildlife Silent Hill: 20 pictures of Traditional Chinese Medicine animal markets
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- Created: 01 November 2012
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"Wildlife Silent Hill" is an explicit report by a Chinese photographer on the abuses against animals in Traditional Chinese Medicine markets scattered in Southern China (Guangxi, Hainan, Guangdong).
Sky Burial: the macabre tibetan ritual dissection
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- Created: 25 October 2012
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Even today, Tibetan communities continue to celebrate their ancient customs and traditions. Among these, one of the most special funerary traditions is related to the open-air sacrificial burial, Sky burial or ritual dissection, an ancient funerary practice wherein a human corpse is incised in certain location and placed on a mountaintop, exposing it to vultures.
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The Hello Kitty Murder: Hong Kong’s most sordid crime in a decade
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- Created: 24 October 2012
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Detectives were skeptical when a pretty 14-year-old girl turned up at a Tsim Sha Tsui police station in May 1999 saying she was being haunted by the ghost of a woman she had helped torture, kill and butcher a year earlier. But when they followed up her claims and visited a third-floor apartment in Hong Kong’s shoppers’ paradise, Granville Road, they uncovered what many police and lawyers consider Hong Kong’s most sordid and revolting crime in almost a decade.
Torture punishments inflicted on adulteresses in ancient China: 26 images
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- Created: 23 October 2012
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In ancient China, chastity was considered a virtue very important.
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Red tourism: a theme park dedicated to the Sino-Japanese War in China
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- Created: 23 October 2012
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A theme park just dedicated to the glories of the past is located in Wuxiang county, Shanxi, at the foot of the Taihang Mountains: the Chinese Communist Eighth Route Army (八路军).
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First same-sex marriage in China: 26 images
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- Created: 22 October 2012
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Quanzhou, Fujian Province held the first public gay marriage of China. Lu Zhong, 24, and Wanqiang Liu, 20, celebrated their union in the streets of the city by sharing their joy.
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38 rare pictures of eunuchs during Qing Dinasty
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- Created: 22 October 2012
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A eunuch (太監, Taijian) is a man who has been castrated in his early life for this change to have major hormonal consequences.
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Shanghai as you've never seen it before: Planet Shanghai
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- Created: 18 October 2012
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Zhang Haitao is a Chinese photographer who decided to transform his panoramic photos of Shanghai in to 360 ° planets.
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35 rare images of the infamous Japanese experiment unit 731 in China
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- Created: 17 October 2012
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Unit 731 (731部隊), based at the Pingfang district of Harbin and led by the infamous Japanese microbiologist Shiro Ishii, was a covert biological warfare research and development unit of the Imperial Japanese Army that undertook human experimentation during the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937–1945) and World War II.
Chinese students from the eighties vs 2012: 20 images
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- Created: 16 October 2012
- Written by Dominique Musorrafiti
Two galleries issued respectively on Xinhuanet.com and 163.com. In these photos, we can see portraits of Chinese students in classrooms, libraries and dormitories.
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Serene Scent: New Ink Painting
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- Created: 15 October 2012
- Written by Zhang Zhaohui
Over the last two decades, new ink painting has been the integral part of Chinese contemporary art movement/scene, and with the development of societal/economical climate and art context its art vision has been broaden and matured.
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ABUSES IN THE EVICTION PROCESS
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- Created: 15 October 2012
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“What’s the point if a few of us live well and shut our mouths but the government continues to abuse other citizens, creating more broken families and poverty and pushing people outside the city to give their land to the richest businessmen. Many who seek justice through law face detention and torture in custody. What we ask for is not a personal settlement, but public justice.”
Housing rights advocate Mao Hengfeng
Housing rights advocate Mao Hengfeng
BACKGROUND: THOUSANDS FACE VIOLENT EVICTION IN CHINA
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- Created: 15 October 2012
- Written by Amnesty International
Even before it took power, the Chinese Communist Party under Mao Zedong established its legitimacy in the countryside through land-to-tiller, mass-mobilization policies intended to break the economic and social control enjoyed by rural elites. The Party redistributed farmland from landlords to peasants in a process frequently marked by violence.
STANDING THEIR GROUND: THOUSANDS FACE VIOLENT EVICTION IN CHINA
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- Created: 15 October 2012
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“Consultation, negotiation and litigation help little for land issues. Officials collude with businessmen to seize the land in the name of economic development and use land as a mortgage to harm the interests of villagers.”
Lin Zuluan, newly elected leader for Wukan village, Guangdong province
Lin Zuluan, newly elected leader for Wukan village, Guangdong province
21 old (and scary) pictures of lotus feet
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- Created: 09 October 2012
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Foot binding, 缠足, is the antique custom of traditional Chinese society of binding the feet of girls painfully tight to prevent further growth.
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Sad documentary about AIDS condition in Henan
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- Created: 08 October 2012
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Mistakes, abuses and prejudices of an entire system that underestimated and then inadequately treated a dangerous health problem with the wrong tools: inadequate medicines, medicines not approved by the United Nations, discriminations.
21 rares and beautiful hand-painted pictures of old China
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- Created: 05 October 2012
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Directly from the archives of the University of Southern California (UCLA) twenty hand-painted shots of a China almost completely disappeared.
816 Nuclear Military Plant, underground top secret facility
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- Created: 31 August 2012
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816 Nuclear Military Plant was a huge underground top secret facility hidden in the mountains of Baitao town, in Chongqing area.
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Chinese Man Builds Himself Bionic Hands from scrap metal (video)
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- Created: 27 August 2012
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Sun Jifa, a 51-year-old Chinese man who lost both hands when he was building a bomb for blast fishing built himself a pair of bionic hands after 8 years of work.
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