Very bad stuff, death toll feared to be in the thousands.
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Earthquake in China
12 May 2008 09:40 am
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The first paragraph talks about an earthquake in "Western China", but the map makes it look east of the mid-point in China.
Is China like New York, where everything north of the City is "Upstate" and anything West of Beijing is "Western China"?
China experts differ a bit in how they talk about geography in China. A lot of people define Western China to be the western edge of Han-majority China, basically putting Tibet and Xinjiang as an extension to the west of Western China. Some people call places like Sichuan, where the state TV is saying the quake's epicenter was, part of Central China. I tend to switch depending on whether or not I'm talking to Chinese people, foreigners who know a lot about China or foreign non-experts.
Anything not in the East is in the West. And Tibet isn't Western China, it's Tibet.
The half of the country (geographically) to the west of Sichuan is pretty unpopulated. Maybe someday it will be considered the "Midwest" (I've heard Chongqing referred to as the Chicago of China); remember the Midwest here was once "the West".
Is there a list published of those who perished or are missing? I am looking for my friend, who lives there. I want to know if she is OK. I have not heard from her for a while.
Is there a list published with the names of those who perished or are missing? I am looking for my friend, whom I have not heard from.
Is there a list published with the names of those who perished or are missing? I am looking for my friend, whom I have not heard from.
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im sorry for your lose i love china i all way wanted to go their
im sorry for your lose i love china i all way wanted to go their
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Heads in the Sand
It may just be me, but this is hitting home a little closer than it would have a few years ago. China used to be more abstract in my mind. Not that I wouldn't have cared per se, but I would have cared differently before China "woke" and joined the cell phone and Burger King set. Globalization is having a humanizing effect, on me at least.
Posted by Roboticghost | May 12, 2008 10:37 AM