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This plan includes lessons connected to the work of journalists that presented at the University of Chicago Summer Teacher Institute in June 2017.
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Meet the Journalist: Beth Gardiner
After years of ignoring the deadly problem, China's leaders are finally starting to take air...
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Meet the Journalist: Howard W. French
In 1997, under an arrangement known as One Country, Two Systems, Hong Kong was restored to Chinese...
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China is seen as a poster child for smog, but it is pushing back against air pollution with a wind...
![I was drawn to the Beichuan earthquake memorial because I knew it would be strange but I was not fully prepared for the level of mass tourism on the site. According to a local tourism official I spoke with, fully 3 million domestic tourists a year visit the site. Seeing so many middle-class vacationers in their trendy athleisure clothing with their cameras out walking through a destroyed city was jarring but it was fully intended. The local government hoped that disaster tourism would be a major economic…](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/06-21-17/beichuan_tourists.jpg.webp?h=5d8d1d0b&itok=2QlN3bFD "I was drawn to the Beichuan earthquake memorial because I knew it would be strange but I was not fully prepared for the level of mass tourism on the site. According to a local tourism official I spoke with, fully 3 million domestic tourists a year visit the site. Seeing so many middle-class vacationers in their trendy athleisure clothing with their cameras out walking through a destroyed city was jarring but it was fully intended. The local government hoped that disaster tourism would be a major economic development tool in the region. Despite the grand plans, however, most tourists visit the ruins as a day trip and stay in larger cities farther away or continue on into the mountains to visit Laojunshan National Park (aka "China's Yellowstone"). Image by Daniel Brook. China, 2015.")
![The county seat of Beichuan, in China's Sichuan province, was the worst hit area by the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck on May 12, 2008. The quake, the strongest in China since 1950, left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing in the region, and an estimated 10 million were without shelter. In Beichuan alone, about half of the residents died. Thousands of these casualties were children, with locals blaming faulty construction in school buildings, which became known as "tofu-dreg schoolhouses." Image by…](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/05-16-17/beichuan_blog_-1.jpg.webp?h=c6980913&itok=9zCRl5Yx "The county seat of Beichuan, in China's Sichuan province, was the worst hit area by the 7.9 magnitude earthquake that struck on May 12, 2008. The quake, the strongest in China since 1950, left nearly 90,000 people dead or missing in the region, and an estimated 10 million were without shelter. In Beichuan alone, about half of the residents died. Thousands of these casualties were children, with locals blaming faulty construction in school buildings, which became known as "tofu-dreg schoolhouses." Image by Sim Chi Yin/VII Photo Agency. China, 2015.")
