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What exactly caused the Hangzhou subway collapse

Well, no one knows, just yet. There are no official answers, but from what i’ve been able to cull from the internet, there were several factors. Some people have said that the tubes used to prop the tunnel up were … Continue reading

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Hangzhou subway tunnel collapse: problems discovered a month ago

This CNN article has the number of dead pegged at 4 but it seems that now the official number of dead has risen to five. What makes the whole thing much much worse is the fact that, according to one … Continue reading

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Nabel Tiles: occidentalism in China

Most students of cultural studies, Middle Eastern studies or the humanities in general are bound to be familiar with the concept of orientalism, the title of the late Edward Said’s watershed explication of the West’s images and discourse of the … Continue reading

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