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Movies that I’ve watched: Peter Watkins’ Punishment Park

One of the better movies that i’ve seen in awhile. The film, shot like a documentary, takes place in 1970s America, where the Vietnam War wages and on a cultural schism has opened up between those that support the establishment … Continue reading

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Only in China do you do autopsies in front of the house of the deceased…

Li Shufen, the girl whose mysterious and contested death was the cause of the Weng’an incident of June 28, has had yet another autopsy performed on her corpse, this time in front of her house where naturally, as is the … Continue reading

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Three elderly Hainan residents protest government use of land

What’s interesting about this is that their land was taken and used for a police sub-station (pai chu suo), but that was not something recent, but rather happened way back in 1974. They felt they were shafted then, and kept … Continue reading

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