China’s Clean Energy Ambition Floats on Abandoned Coal Mine
China’s ambitions to dominate new energy technologies are unfolding at the site of an abandoned coal mine about 300 miles (483 kilometers) northwest of Shanghai.
Environment
03.14.17
Source of Mekong, Yellow, and Yangtze Rivers Drying Up
from chinadialogueIn 2015, the Chinese government announced plans to set up a new nature reserve in the Sanjiangyuan (“three river source”)...
Inside the Quiet Lives of China’s Disappearing Tibetan Nomads
As settlements see an influx of Tibetans, the transition is difficult for these nomad-turned-villagers.
The Cowboys (and Indians) of Sichuan: Photographers Search for China's Billy the Kid
The people of remote Tagong in the southwestern grasslands resemble the cowboys and Indians of North American history.
Sinica Podcast
04.23.10
The Eulogy and the Aftershocks
from Sinica PodcastComing twenty-one years after the death of former Party Secretary Hu Yaobang, Premier Wen Jiabao’s surprise eulogy to his former...