Investigative Journalism in China: Eight Cases in Chinese Watchdog Journalism
This volume offers a comprehensive, first-hand look at investigative journalism in China, including insider accounts from reporters behind some of China's top stories in recent years.
Selling Blood Spreads HIV
In the central farmland of the early 1990s, China saw the average farmer working long hours, rising before dawn and often not returning home until after sunset. Fields were ploughed, planted and irrigated by hand. Compensation for these long days of labour was minimal: the average rural farming household earned between US&8 and US&12 a month, a meagre living eked out from an average of 0.05 ha of land per person, about the size of two tennis courts. Faced with pressures to feed and educate one’s family and to ensure the successful marriage of one’s children (often an expensive proposition), the farm labourer was in a position of particular financial vulnerability. It was through this fragile population that the commercial plasma donation industry ploughed a disease-ridden trench leading to the infection of thousands with HIV.
Understanding Miscarriages of Justice: Law, the Media, and the Inevitability of Crisis
1. Introduction 2. Problematizing miscarriage of justice 3. Remedying miscarriages of justice: the history of the Court of Criminal Appeal 4. Into and out of crisis: a recent history of media reporting on miscarriages of justice 5. Scientific evidence and the new Criminal Cases Review Commission: the scope for further miscarriages of justice and crisis 6. From understanding miscarriage of justice to reform Bibliography Index