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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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Education Resource
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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Education Resource
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...
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Pulitzer Center Update
Ian Johnson Publishes "The Souls of China"
Grantee Ian Johnson just published a book, "The Souls of China," on the return of religion after Mao...
April 17, 2017
![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.")
![Cover of Ian Johnson's book, "Souls of China."](/sites/default/files/styles/510x315/public/04-12-17/souls_electronic_cover.jpg.webp?h=ded35d44&itok=7tI7BOv7 "Cover of Ian Johnson's book, "Souls of China."")
