With Jamais' recent China Update on my mind, I happened to click into these photographs of the Yangtze River valley by Steven Bensen, taken in the months immediately preceeding the final flooding. Each one is a little set piece: modernity meets the ancient and sublime, for good or ill.

just to tie together the last three posts :D

http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20040324/sc_nm/environment_mekong_dc_1

"PHNOM PENH (Reuters) - Chinese dams and a drought have pushed water levels in the mighty Mekong river to record lows, threatening the livelihoods of millions in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam, environmentalists said on Wednesday."

cheers!

Posted by: reflexorset on March 25, 2004 2:18 PM