Environment
07.14.16
South China Faces Worst Floods in Decades
from chinadialogue
It’s like someone poked a hole in the sky, the rain just keeps pouring down, you can’t breathe,” said Mrs Wu from Donghu, a district in Wuhan a city in central China with over 10 million residents. Mrs Wu lives in Chunshuli, an affluent neighborhood...
Features
04.22.16
Drinking the Northwest Wind
Like so many of Mao’s pronouncements, it sounded simple. “The South has a lot of water; the North lacks water. So if it can be done, borrowing a little water and bringing it up might do the trick.” And thus, in 1952, the foundation was laid for what...
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09.01.15In China’s Heartland, Small Cities Flourish
Wall Street Journal
Even in slowdown, a Yangtze River town bursts with consumer vitality.
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06.04.15China Tries To Put A More Positive Spin On Cruise Ship Sinking
NPR
Dozens are confirmed dead and the number is expected to pass 400.
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06.03.15Divers Comb Capsized China Ship, Hopes Fade for Survivors
Reuters
Rescuers have not slackened off, even though about 200 divers face difficulties such as cabin doors blocked by tables and beds.
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06.02.15Ship Sinks in China’s Yangtze River with 458 Aboard
CNN
The captain and chief engineers were among the only 15 survivors and five bodies recovered as of Tuesday night.
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10.25.13China Yangtze River Yields American World War II Bomber
BBC
A U.S. scholar says the plane, discovered by fishermen in the Yangtze River, was a B-25 bomber from the “Flying Tiger” squadrons, a special unit of World War II U.S. military pilots tasked with training Chinese pilots in air combat.
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02.18.13Return to Rivertown
National Geographic
In 1996 a Peace Corps volunteer arrived in Fuling, a sleepy town on the Yangtze, to teach English. He went back recently to find the landscape—and his former students—transformed.
Photo Gallery
10.24.12
Growth
The photographer James Whitlow Delano says he finds beauty in melancholy. For more than two decades, he has sought it out around the edges of the often ebullient story of China’s economic rise. His book Empire: Impressions from China,...
Caixin Media
04.25.12
Watery Grave for Yangtze River Fish
(Beijing)—Fishermen along the banks of the mighty Yangtze River have long spoken of emptier nets and longer waits for a catch.On April 2, an unusual auction held in a downstream city in Jiangsu Province added weight to their bleak reports: A single...