AFD (Agence Française de Développement), known in English as the French Development Agency, is a French international development agency that does a lot of good work in China (as well as in many other countries). In fact, they were the top foreign donor to the 2008 Sichuan earthquake relief effort. In commemoration of their work on the earthquake relief efforts, they commissioned a documentary to be filmed in several of the regions in Sichuan where they supplied recovery funds. As […]
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Stories from Danba
I’ll start from the beginning for those of you who have no idea what I’m up to over here in Bumblefuk, China. I’m here for two months this summer to film a documentary for my Masters thesis. For those of you who didn’t even know I was getting a Masters degree, well… shame on you for not keeping in touch all this time. Actually, all of this starts a year ago, when I came to China for a seven-month stay […]
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This is a travelogue e-mail sent to my family after returning from a head-splitting trip to Litang, the highest town in the world. Or so the locals claim it is. The nasty altitude sickness I had to deal with made their claims much easier to believe. But the horse races I attended there were pretty darn awesome! I took off for a month of travel on July 29. I started off by heading out to a huge Tibetan horse race […]
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