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Shanghai as you’ve never seen it before: Planet Shanghai

Zhang Haitao is a Chinese photographer who decided to transform his panoramic photos of Shanghai into 360 ° planets. With the help of a digital … Read more

images of the Japanese experiment unit 731 in China

35 Rare Images of the Infamous Japanese Experiment Unit 731 in China

Japanese Experiment Unit 731: Rare Historical Images Unit 731 (731部隊), based in the Pingfang district of Harbin and led by the infamous Japanese microbiologist Shiro … Read more

Chinese students from the eighties vs 2012: 20 images

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. The two … Read more

Serene Scent: New Ink Painting

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 … Read more

ABUSES IN THE EVICTION PROCESS in China

EVICTION PROCESS in China – “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

BACKGROUND: THOUSANDS FACE VIOLENT EVICTION IN CHINA

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

VIOLENT EVICTION IN CHINA – “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

Body Art in China

Body Art in China – Five years ago, many Chinese had wondered what role has the Body art in contemporary society and particularly in their … Read more

Woman with bound feet, photograph by John Thomson

Footbinding in China: 25+ old pictures of lotus feet in China

Foot binding in China: From Cultural Practice to Historical Controversy Footbinding, 缠足, is the antique custom of traditional Chinese society of binding the feet of … Read more

Sad documentary about AIDS condition in Henan

Hiv in China

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.

In China AIDS spreaded mainly thanks to selling blood. “In many rural areas of China during the 1990s, particularly in the province of Henan, hundreds of thousands up to millions of farmers and peasants were infected with HIV through participation in state-run blood collection programs in which contaminated equipment was reused.”(Wikipedia).

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Source Daily Mail via Micgadget , CinaOggi

All the movies from Far East at the Venice Film Festival

The 69th edition of the Venice Film Festival will start within a few days. After the break, all the movies from the Far East were presented at the kermesse: images, trailers, and more.

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