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Tiger Temple on the homeless of QianmenPosted by Jeremy Goldkorn, February 23, 2008 2:17 PM
 Not such a happy new year The Chinese blog 24 Hours Online is written by an old Beijinger who calls himself 'Temple Tiger' and describes his blog as a 'one man newspaper'. He first got famous when he published photographs and reporting about a stabbing he witnessed in Wangfujing in 2003 that the press ignored. Since then he has ridden a bicycle around Ningxia and Inner Mongolia, adopted stray animals, and written about ordinary Chinese people, often the poorest of the poor. Recently he has been documenting the lives of a group of destitute old people who have been living on the streets in the Qianmen area, and are being ruthlessly displaced by the urban reconstruction taking place in that area. Tiger Temple's latest post is titled Premier Wen Jiabao, please visit your neighbors (in Chinese). John Kennedy at Global Voices has translated and explained the whole post in English. You can read a profile of Tiger Temple by Adrienne Mong on MSNBC.com. |
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Comments on Tiger Temple on the homeless of Qianmen
Thank you for this update. Very intriguing to learn about this blogger, and it definitely moves my heart every time I hear about the plight of the Old Hundred Names.
I went to The Vagrant Wall after reading a previous post on Global Voices with my girlfriend and my camera at the start of Februrary...very strange place, much like walking through a ghost town.
One of my former students translated some of the posters that had been liberally plastered to the walls, the homeless people had gone from behind the wall, but the most of the doors were padlocked and eviction notices taped to the doors of the hutong courtyards. The whole photoset is on my Flickr here
Sorry if the html is a bit off, it's way past my bedtime, and I'm wating for Chengdu Train Station to open...