virtualreview

china: news and opinion

Right Time, Right Place, Wrong Reporter?

This page collects the works by The Economist's James Miles. For ten days, Miles was the king of the journalists by being the lone foreign reporter in Lhasa during the disturbances. This page also contains an analysis of a Miles report by a Chinese... ...full story at ESWN

from ESWN on Fri, Mar 21 2008

see also:

21 Mar 08 visit Tibet: only one foreign journalist in Lhasa  »  YouTube videoJames Miles of The Economist describes ethnic violence between Tibetans and Han Chinese in Lhasa. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Blog: China Rises "None of us can enter Tibet, which is off limits to foreign reporters without a perm...
14 Oct 08 visit RIDING ALONE FOR THOUSANDS OF MILES ( Qian li zou dan qi)  »  China Expat     -by Brianne Feigen   To the sing-song chant of a Chinese opera, the opening screen credits introduce Riding Alone For Thousands of Miles, an understated but powerful gem of a film. Zhang Yimou, right after completing the flamboyan...
08 Aug 08 visit Fireworks for Miles and Miles  »  China Journal Click on the map above to see just how many fireworks displays will be going off in Beijing. This is Beijing’s big night, so you might have guessed that there would be more than just one location for fireworks. Apart from the site of the Bird’s ...
20 Feb 08 visit Green cost of sleet: $8b of forest wealth  »  People's Daily Monkeys shivering with cold. Farmers weeping over their loss. Trees damaged for miles after miles. These are some of the video clips provided by the State Forestry Administration (SFA) yesterday to show the damage caused by the worst win ...
28 Oct 08 visit China Being Submerged in Sand: Desertification Spreads 1,300 Square Miles Per Year  »  TreeHugger photo: Josh Chin Many TreeHugger readers probably know the now-familiar sobering statistics regarding the nature of China’s economic rise and its toll on the environment: 14,000 new cars on the roads each day, 52,000 miles of roadways under constructio...
17 Jul 08 visit A Reporter Visits Wengan  »  ESWN China News Weekly reporter Wang Weibo reflects on his experience in Wengan as well as the information management processes in place at this time.

« Today's Stories