Under the Dome, Chai Jing's breakout documentary on China's catastrophic air pollution problem, finally hit insurmountable political opposition last Friday after seven days in which the video racked up over 200 million views. The eventual clampdown raised many questions about the extent of internal support for the documentary.
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03.03.15
Why Has This Environmental Documentary Gone Viral on China’s Internet?
In this episode of Sinica, Kaiser Kuo and David Moser interview Calvin Quek of Greenpeace, who works on pollution problems and has significant experience lobbying the private sector to curtail investments in the worst-offending environmentally unsustainable technologies. We are also joined by Peggy Liu, chairperson of JUCCCE (Joint US-China Collaboration on Clean Energy), a non-profit organization focused on Chinese government training and other green initiatives.
Recommendations:
- A New Way to Eat, JUCCCE
- China Coal Consumption Cap Plan and Policy Research Project, Natural Resources Defense Council
- China's Carbon Emissions Could Save the World—Or Doom It, Hudson Lockett, China Economic Review
- “The 'Deaf' Composer Who Fooled a Nation," Christopher Beam, The New Republic
- “The Most Brilliant Politician You Never Knew," Beverly Murray, Back That Sass Up
- “Travels with My Censor," Peter Hessler, The New Yorker