This article also appears on ChinaFile, a Tea Leaf Nation partner site. It appears that Chinese environmental activism is going further mainstream. The Sina micro-blogging account of Global Times, a well-known Communist Party mouthpiece, has just shared news about the horrific proliferation of “cancer villages” in China. Earlier today, @环球时报 wrote: A map of China’s ‘cancer [...]
Smog isn’t the only kind of pollution making headlines in China. Environmental activist Deng Fei recently encouraged users of Sina Weibo, China’s Twitter, to share pictures of polluted rivers from their hometowns, taking on local issues in a national campaign. While the aesthetic aspect of this pollution has been a source of great dissatisfaction, news of [...]
Netizens in China, already known for crowdsourced social activism, are hoping to make change happen again–this time, in order to save migratory birds. As reported by Headline News Hunan (@湖南头条新闻) and Changsha Evening News (@长沙晚报), there has been rampant poaching of wild birds on migratory paths in certain remote areas of Hunan Province by local peasants. (See [...]
Many have foreseen that China’s burgeoning “Spot the Watch” online anti-corruption movement—in which netizens scour for photographic evidence of public servants wearing suspiciously expensive timepieces—would eventually incur governmental retribution. But few had anticipated what will surely become one of the biggest scandals in China’s news industry in recent years. On October 9, Wang Keqin (@王克勤), [...]
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