2008.06.04 By Lindsey Hilsum: Nineteen years after the Tiananmen Square crackdown, Lindsey Hilsum reports on the fate of one political dissident in China. Today marks the nineteenth anniversary of the bloody military crackdown on pro-democracy protests...
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[Channel 4 News] Monks: 'China is tricking you' 2008.03.27 »
YouTube video By Lindsey Hilsum:
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[Channel 4 News] China's Three Gorges Dam Project »
YouTube video Lindsey Hilsum reports (2008.01.14) on how China's Three Gorges Dam is bedevilled by landslips and pollution.
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[Channel 4 News] China denies using force in Tibet »
YouTube video 2008.03.17
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Historic preservation, compensation, and the wrecker's ball, er...hammer » Granite Studio Two recent articles on historical preservation in China. The first is by Lindsey Hilsum of the New Statesman. Hilsum writes about Shanchang, a village near Macao and Zhuhai, where over 21 homes and buildings dating from the Ming and Qing dynasty have... |
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Is China Running Scared? » China Confidential China is an increasingly insecure superpower--a far from harmonious nation with a growing gap between rich and poor.So says Lindsey Hilsum, China Correspondent for the UK's Channel 4 News. Her analysis in today's edition of the New Statesman is a... |
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A Dark Anniversary » China Journal Nineteen years after the government’s crackdown on the Tiananmen Square democracy movement, today’s WSJ looks at the generation gap between young people in China now and then. Ding Zilin (AP photo) Meanwhile, Ding Zilin is still waiting... |