As previously mentioned here and here, the Atlantic's October issue has an article I put a lot of effort and heart into. It was about an idealistic attempt to improve the prospects for children living in China's remote, scenic, and very poor far western... ...full story at James Fallows
from James Fallows on Tue, Oct 07 2008
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保卫黄河 - Defend the yellow river »
YouTube video The Yellow River Piano concerto is a Chinese piano concerto which is arranged by the famous Chinese pianist Yin Cheng Zong.The concerto is based on the "Yellow river cantata" by Xian Xing Hai. The last movement is considered as the most famous one, in... |
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Yellow Sheep River » James Fallows The new issue of the Atlantic is in subscribers' hands and up on the web. It includes my story on a touching and quixotic effort by two businessmen / idealists to bring the good parts of modern technology to a remote village in Gansu Province called... |
| 05 Oct 08 |
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China steps up anti-poverty effort in arid western areas » People's Daily China's State Council, or the Cabinet, has decided to further extend a program that involves special funds for infrastructure and other projects in three particularly arid and poor areas in the country's remote northwest. While extending the... |
| 02 Apr 08 |
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Sheep giving naturalists the blues » Shanghai Daily CHINESE conservationists have been fumbling for ways to rein in an overpopulation of the blue sheep. The blue sheep is a protected wild species of sheep mainly living in the Helan Mountain, which lies at the meeting of Ningxia Hui and Inner Mongolia... |
| 18 Mar 08 |
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Flood warnings issued as Yellow River begins to thaw » People's Daily Officials in China's Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region have warned of the dangers of collapsed embankments and flooding as the frozen Yellow River begins to thaw. About 212 km of the 720-kilometer stretch of the Yellow River in Inne ... |
| 12 Mar 08 |
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Nearly 1,000 wildlife perish in freezing NW China » People's Daily Nearly 1,000 Mongolian gazelles, blue sheep and wild donkeys have perished in the extreme cold during the mid-January to early March period at the source of the Yellow River, an official in China's northwest Qinghai Province said on Wednes ... |
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