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CRF-2008-04-cover.qxd:CRF-2004-04-cover 1/7/09 10:05 AM Page C1 CHINA After the Spectacle RIGH TS FORUMNO. 4, 2008 | US $8.00 Gao Wenqian | Where is China Headed after the Olympics? Zhai Minglei | Stones in Our Hearts Zan Aizong | Living Space for the Chinese Media Before and After the Beijing Olympics Conversation with Jocelyn Ford Elizabeth Economy on China’s Environment Peter Kwong | Shanghai 2010: Towards a Greener China? Yodon Thonden | Notes from Dharamsala Charter 08: Domestic Call for Reform ЁҎᴗ HUMAN RIGHTS IN CHINA CRF-2008-04-cover.qxd:CRF-2004-04-cover 1/7/09 10:05 AM Page C2 CHINA RIGHTS FORUM The Journal of Human Rights in China No. 4, 2008, December 2008 © Human RIghts in China ISSN 1068-4166 Cover photos: (top) Joe Chan/REUTERS; (bottom) Hannibal Hanschke/REUTERS The views expressed in this journal are those of the authors and not necessarily those of Human Rights in China. 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Switch your subscription to e-delivery, share your copy of the China Rights Forum with other readers, and/or recycle this and other magazines and newspapers through services available in your local community. CRF-2008-04r-001-006.qxd:HRIC-Report 1/14/09 2:47 PM Page 1 CHINA RIGHTS FORUM | NO. 4, 2008 AFTER THE SPECTACLE 3 Message from the Executive Director Greening the Future 4 Message from the Special Contributing Editor 5 Contributors 34 Elizabeth Economy on China’s Environment Observations from Elizabeth Economy on the “One World, One Dream”? major environmental issues facing China. 8 Where is China Headed after the Olympics? 36 Blue Skies Over Beijing Gao Wenqian examines the political and eco - Sam Geall examines environmental progress nomic landscape of post-Olympics China. before and after the Beijing Olympic Games. 13 What is “Tainted” about the Tainted Milk 40 Shanghai 2010: Towards a Greener China? Scandal? Peter Kwong looks ahead to World Expo 2010 in Leon Stone probes the deep roots of the tainted Shanghai and assesses lessons learned from Bei - milk powder scandal of 2008. jing 2008. S 17 Stones in Our Hearts E G A Zhai Minglei reflects on the nature of a civilization M While the World Watched I Y in which infants are fed poisoned milk powder. T T E 46 Tibet at a Turning Point G / P F 21 Living Space for the Chinese Media Before Vincent Metten looks at the human rights situa - A / s and After the Beijing Olympics k tion in Tibet before and after the Olympics, and r a P Zan Aizong examines the prospects for independ - the future of the Tibet question. r e t e ent newsgathering and the role of citizen reporters. P ; S 51 Notes from Dharamsala: HRIC Conversation R E T 26 Media Reporting after the Olympics: HRIC with Yodon Thonden U E R Conversation with Jocelyn Ford A New York-based Tibetan American describes / V I s Freelance journalist Jocelyn Ford discusses the the significance and outcome of the November e t r o current climate for foreign journalists working 2008 Special Meeting in Dharamsala, India. C o r a in China. l C ; S R E T U E R / n a 7 33 45 h C e o J : ) t h g i r o t t f e l ( s t i d e r c o t o h P CONTENTS | 1 CRF-2008-04r-001-006.qxd:HRIC-Report 1/14/09 2:47 PM Page 2 A Field Guide to China’s “Low Cost” Factories Geoff Crothall reviews Alexandra Harney’s The China Price: The True Cost of Chinese Competitive Advantage. Table Talk about the Olympics and Human Rights Jeffrey Wasserstrom reviews Minky Worden’s China’s Great Leap: The Beijing Games and Olympian Human Rights Challenges. 59 90 HRIC in Action 55 Letter from East Turkestan Alim Seytoff examines the Chinese government’s 99 CRF Index for 2008 pre- and post-Olympics campaign of intimida - tion against the Uyghur people. - 2009 Calendar of Key Dates & Anniversaries 60 Currents 70 Take Action: IR2008 Campaign Peter Kwong, Special Contributing Editor 74 Timeline: Human Rights Defenders Peter Kwong is a Professor of Asian American Studies and Urban Affairs and Planning at Hunter College, and 80 Chinese Publication Highlights a Professor of Sociology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. He is the author of Chi - 82 Culture Matters nese America: The Untold Story of America’s Oldest New A Parable of Talent Gone to Waste Community and co-author of Chinese Americans: An Thomas Kellogg reviews Philip P. Pan’s Out of Mao’s Immigrant Experience. Shadow: The Struggle for the Soul of a New China. S R E T U E R / e l b o N l i h P : t i d e r c o t o h P 2 | CONTENTS CRF-2008-04r-001-006.qxd:HRIC-Report 1/14/09 2:47 PM Page 3 CHINA RIGHTS FORUM | NO. 4, 2008 MESSAGE FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR 2008 was an especially challenging year for China. This issue of the China Rights Forum , with special contributions from guest editor Peter Kwong, examines the political and media landscape and environmental issues in China before and after the 2008 Beijing Olympics. Beginning with the unusual February ice storms in the south, the Chi - nese authorities have had to deal with a series of high profile events: the Tibetan demonstrations in March, the Sichuan earthquake in May and its devastating aftermath, global protests following the Olympics torch relay in March to August, the hosting of the Games in August, and the tainted milk powder scandal that came to light in Sep - tember. China’s double-digit economic growth also began to slow, and the deepening global economic crisis will put even greater pressure on the leadership to deal with widening social dislocations and unrest.