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...Corruption has proved an inflammatory issue in the past - it added fuel to the Tiananmen protest in 1989 - and mixed with student deaths it could be explosive. Beijing's first instinct will be to sweep the schools scandal under the rug. Much of the online anger over the collapsed schools has been deleted and all discussion of the topic has been banned. But Jiang of the University of Alberta says that, as China's civil society develops, leaders know they must adapt. "It will be extremely tempting for the control types and ideologues to use [the earthquake] to glorify...
...encounters I never would have sought out on my own. After my freshman year in college, I interned in the sports department of the CBS affiliate in Atlanta and spent my days taking notes on the then hapless Braves' baseball games. One day news from Tiananmen Square suddenly interrupted the CBS feed. Chinese soldiers mauled students and then lunged toward the CBS cameraman filming the scene. I sat looking at my clipboard, wondering what on earth I was doing with my life. Three years later, I got a second push when the nightly news (all three networks...
Corruption has proved an inflammatory issue in the past--it was one of the driving forces behind the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989--and mixed with student deaths, it could be explosive. Beijing's first instinct will be to sweep the schools scandal under the rug. Much of the online anger over the collapsed schools has been deleted, and all discussion of the topic has been banned. But the University of Alberta's Jiang says that as China's civil society develops, leaders know they must adapt. "It will be extremely tempting for the control types and ideologues...
...learning opportunities. High school versions often come accompanied by study guides; a production of Annie can help educate kids about the Depression and FDR's economic policies; Les Miz can be a window for a comparison of the revolutionaries of 19th century France with the Chinese students at Tiananmen Square. Travalino says her school's staging of Urinetown - about a future dystopia where citizens have to pay to pee - had an educational angle as well. "We have a student who started a recycling program," she says. "I thought, well, this show is perfect; it has to do with taking care...
...carefully around the question, aware of its implication that corrupt local officials had siphoned off funds from school construction. He denied that an unusually large number of schools had collapsed. Corruption has proved an inflammatory issue in the past-it was one of the driving forces behind the Tiananmen protest in 1989-and coupling it with an issue like the deaths of hundreds of children could be explosive...