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Preserving traditional homes in FujianPosted by Joel Martinsen, April 28, 2008 3:02 PM
Danwei Picks is a daily digest of the "From the Web" links found on the Danwei homepage. A feed for the links as they are posted throughout the day is available at Feedsky (in China) or Feedburner (outside China). ![]() The earthen homes of Yongding County: Barbara Koh writes for the New York Times about Hakka rammed-earth homes in Fujian: Most Hakka view the buildings merely as shelter and their location and functions as outdated, noted Ping Yip, a recent master’s degree graduate in Hong Kong who researched and lived in the tulou. Yet, she said, "if all the residents move out, the tulou loses its cultural significance as a human settlement."
Though Beijing lacks evidence of organized extremism, there is "increased religious conservatism" in pockets of Uighur society, notes Dru Gladney, an authority on China’s Muslims at Pomona College in California. The religious revival has coincided with growing numbers of well-off Uighurs going on the Haj – considered a rite every Muslim should perform at least once in life. Nationwide, a total of 10,700 Muslims belonging to the Hui and Uighur Muslim minorities made the trip in 2007, 900 more than in 2006 -- though Party authorities have maintained strict caps on the numbers since opening passage to Mecca in the 1980’s....
Second Right Brother (右二哥哥) is a member of the torch security detail who for many Chinese (women) has come to embody a new handsome hero standing up to protect China’s pride. Second right refers to his position in the security detail.
The [Nobel] foundation claims TV4 violated its contract by letting China Central Television and Shanghai Media Group cut out parts of a speech by foundation Chairman Marcus Storch. via Absurdity, Allegory and China.
The mobile phone subscribers in China has risen to more than 574 million by March, as more fixed-line users switched to mobile services on lower rates, according to the Ministry of Industry and Information...
But institutionalized talks between the two sides broke down in 2006. When my colleague Sudip Mazumdar and I interviewed the Dalai Lama in Dharmsala on March 20, he said he'd received private messages of sympathy from ordinary citizens, and even some officials, in China. And he expressed his extreme willingness to talk with President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, for whom he professed "great respect".
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Comments on Preserving traditional homes in FujianI am a hakka from canton ^_^ any idea what was censored from Nobel Foundation Chairman Marcus Storch's speech referenced above? There are also many tulous in Chaozhou(teochew),Guangdong b: This site I found through Google News says "Storch's remarks alluded to an exhibition on freedom of expression at the Nobel Peace Museum in Oslo, Norway". |
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