September 18, 2006

Hotan Jade

Strip-mining into dusty oblivion a piece of China’s soul. A sad story.

Baked by @ 9:58 pm, Filed under: General

The Discussion: 2 Comments

1 By davesgonechina

I’ve actually gone jade picking along the river with locals. I actually find the jade story a stronger example of Eastern Chinese depleting local resources than oil. Instead of jade being a reliable income source for decades to come for the locals (overwhelmingly Uyghur) who live there, it gets sucked dry by the Chinese nouveau riche. Ironic, because you could argue that China’s most traditional stone would be better protected by an independent Xinjiang (which would have an incentive to limit exports to China and manage the resource better). Huh. Never thought of that before – Uyghur Independence as a means of protecting traditional Han culture.

September 18, 2006 @ 11:26 pm | Comment

2 By richard

Why don’t you bring it up at the next People’s Congress?

September 19, 2006 @ 12:51 am | Comment

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