Three Gorges reservoir - before filling

Government officials in China are continuing to harass critics of the country’s infrastructure projects and the political corruption that often plagues these state vanity projects. Earlier this month, officials arrested Xie Chaoping, a former journalist and recent author of a book about the struggles of the more than 400,000 citizens relocated, first in the 1950s and again in 1985, to make way for Sanmenxia dam on the Yellow river.  read more »