http://www.metafilter.com/tags/ruralchina Posts tagged with 'ruralchina' at MetaFilter. Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:29:41 -0800 Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:29:41 -0800 en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss 60 http://www.metafilter.com/35591/Chinas%2Dgreat%2Ddivide <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/13/technology/13china.html?ex=1252728000&amp;en=c97bdebfc8ebba94&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland">In China's newly wealthy cities,</a> a research boom is starting. <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/international/asia/12china.html?ex=1252641600&en=195e0c8a98b98708&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland">In parts of the countryside</a>, the rivers are black and too toxic to touch. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.35591 Tue, 14 Sep 2004 10:29:41 -0800 china development manufacturing politics pollution rural ruralchina technology thirdworld Tlogmer http://www.metafilter.com/34700/The%2Ddeath%2Dof%2DZheng%2DQingming <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/01/international/01CHIN.html?th=&amp;pagewanted=all&amp;position=">"All he has left now</a> to remember the grandson he once carried on his back is a stack of workbooks -- trigonometry, politics, history. Mr. Zheng does not recognize enough Chinese characters to read them. But he keeps the books as memorials." The best human interest story of the year, and a look into the lives of China's rural poor. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.34700 Sun, 01 Aug 2004 04:33:21 -0800 asia china education humaninterest poverty prc ruralchina Tlogmer