南方周末 - 【写真】一次航拍的意外发现：伤痕 via kwout

I saw these pictures in the paper version and now saw them online…they are amazing both aesthetically (aerial shots) and because of the sad reality that they reveal–the irreversible degradation of China’s environment. The pictures are all taken from Hubei province, in and around nine major cities There’s a little essay [...]

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 apply for some kind of hearing on the matter of this land but to no [...]

See that building above? That’s what people in the Yingquan district of Fuyang City in Anhui
province sarcastically call the “white house” and is the building wher ethe local government
does its work. The local party secretary is named Zhang Zhi’an and was one of the people
responsible for the construction of this building. Earlier this year, in [...]