Afterquake: Making music with Sichuan earthquake survivors
From www.afterquakemusic.com In May 2008 an earthquake devastated Sichuan province in China, killing tens of thousands and leaving millions homeless. To commemorate the one year anniversary of this tragedy, musicians Abigail Washburn and Dave Liang of the Shanghai Restoration Project traveled to Sichuan to make music with children who survived the earthquake and their parents. Using folk songs sung by the children as well as sounds of their parents rebuilding their houses with bricks and …
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and government statement of the so call ’socialism with chinese characteristics’ is vague and unclear, talking about economic growth, there are no economic growth, only one third of our GDP are acutually our GNP, and we make our money by polluting our land selling our natural resources en masse and with unbelievably cheap price. There are very little thing made in china that you cant make anywhere else. As for democracy, I wonder if you mean democracy as a idea or democratic political system.
lol, to say that the chinese people dont want democracy and dont want any change is lying, what the chinese dont want to just copy another countrie’s political system, because china has dont if many times in the last 120 years, and it doesnt work, the current political system itself is rapidly changing, the dangerous thing is that it lacks a blueprint in political reform, the question ‘where are we going’ is most important question that chinese reformers need to ask themselves.
Such a great no-nonsense short film, I almost see the beautiful and caring hearts behind those cameras …just those simple things…thank you people!!!
that’s pretty cool!
I am totally/deeply touched..nice movie..
FREAKING AWSOME. i want to do this with my music to. im def going to buy the cd. i really liked the last song
soooo touching, the scene when Chen’s Mum was watching the video…
well done
需要新的自由世界
問題已經正在挨餓俄羅斯，上升無神論反美國，分為非洲，電力消耗澳大利亞，燒毀了中國，韓國的核戰爭，打破中東，歐洲耗盡資源，分為非洲，不能跟踪南美洲等…導致失敗的世界。需要團結中東世界的希望和未來
需要新的自由世界
問題已經正在挨餓俄羅斯，上升無神論反美國，分為非洲，電力消耗澳大利亞，燒毀了中國，韓國的核戰爭，打破中東，歐洲耗盡資源，分為非洲，不能跟踪南美洲等…導致失敗的世界。需要團結中東世界的希望和未來
I was moved! So wonderful! Thank you for doing that!
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These kids all have pretty good voices
It hits me when I saw this video.
I’m going this summer for a volunteer project to Chengdu, Sichuan. This video is motivating me more to help the local people.
lol i love how MahlerTitan is finally shutting the f*ck up now.
much love to china.
love you guys
But EVERYBODY hates America and MANY people hate4 Americans. Don’t cry. The world knows it. We all know that you guys are killing innocent iraqis, Afganis, Pakis,right now, In the past you guys have killed the innocnet civilians in japan, vietnam, south korea. Now yoiu guys are ALSO killing Mexicans using biological weapon. The world knows it. ONLY the dumb fuck fat American knows nothing about this issue you big mac despised by everyone in the world. Don’t be shy. We all know it.
Now when it come to spreading the idea of democracy and human rights, china is amazingly ahead of itself. Even people remote villages are not unfamiliar with democracy and human rights, thanks to the internet, and the CCP as well, for its early propagandas made the words like ‘democracy’, ‘rights of the worker’, rights of woman’ very well known throughout the country. That’s what made events like 1989 possible.
and as I say, major political reform must be carried out with extremely care and consideration to make sure people with sense global responsibilty and credibility would come to power through democratic means. If the power of china fall into the wrong hand, it would be end of the world. so acturally, the world is safer if china dont undergo and majors changes prematurely.
if you meant democratic political system, what defining characteristic or element is nessasary and sufficient to put china on the right track of better civil rights and sustainable growth? Entirely copying the US is surely not possible and not practical as well. Just by giving the people the right to vote is not good enough as seen in Lebannon and Gaza. extremist and facists are unbelivable well learned in the art of coming to power. Democracy is much, much more than just the 9 letters.
i volunteered at a school in a community called the caihe community with free the children, they were greatly affected by the earthquake!
This was so touching, my condolence for the people who past away.
China today is advancing at a breakneck pace. China has a booming automotive industry, has growing Telecommunications companies, has an aerospace industry. Oh, did I mention the Chinese are in the space race now? The only thing China needs is a steady flow of energy. As the USA stirrs up a hornets nest in the Middle East, she eyes suspiciously at China’s push into Africa.
American economy falters because the mismanagement of Monetary and Foreign policy of the government. The USA spends $400-500 billion annually on upgrading her military and maintaining her Global hegemony. That military expenditure is more than Russia, China, France, UK and Germany combined. USA suffers financial problems not because of China, USa suffers from unemployment and shipment of jobs overseas because of overspending by US gov’t.
very touching, gd songs come from their deep hearts