Word: destructionism
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Still, if more feedlots like Western Cattle's crop up around the country, communities can expect to deal with a new set of problems. Disease outbreaks in concentrated animal populations can be devastating. Even if the cows and their meat are well monitored and safe, feedlots foul the air and...
This year, Adams House seniors Luca Candelori ’08, Nathan A. Sharp ’08, Arjun A. Suri ’08, and Samuel W. Teller, a Crimson Magazine staff writer, won the housing lottery—and not in the “we avoided the...
Admittedly, life in the hutongs--the narrow alleyways lined with single-story courtyard houses that are the heart of old Beijing and have suffered the greatest destruction--is no picnic. Most of the courtyard houses that held one family before Beijing fell to the Communists in 1949 are now packed...
In October 1860, during the Second Opium War, French and British troops sacked the summer palace. The destruction was one of the most humiliating moments of China's long period of colonial subjugation. During the attack the bronze heads were pried from their plinths and the looters took them around...
Some preservationists argue that the presence of Chinese artifacts in foreign museums actually helped prevent their destruction during China's violent Cultural Revolution, when many symbols of the past, including what remained of the old Summer Palace, were demolished by bands of Red Guards. But Niu argues that what might...