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There is a VERY poignant Chinese movie, released in 2010, about the quake that you might want to watch, although I'm not sure where you'll be able to find it. The name of the movie is Aftershock. Then and now: Photos show Tangshan's transformation, 40 years after devastating earthquake http://shanghaiist.com/attachments/shang_shanghaiist/Tangshan_earthquake1.jpg http://shanghaiist.com/attachments/shang_shanghaiist/Tangshan_earthquake3.jpg At the memorial. Search YouTube for 'Tangshan' for others.
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We're lucky in the sense that we don't have any friends or family who were directly affected by the quake. So my wife's reaction so far has been relatively restrained. She did wear black to her English class today. And she's not wearing any makeup or jewelry during the 3 days of mourning. Apparently some of her friends and family back in China are doing the same. Christine hasn't shown a lot of outward emotion since the quake. She doesn't really talk about it much unless I point out something I'm watching on CNN or CCTV. She doesn't go out of her way to watch the coverage but I do notice her reading Chinese websites that are talking about it. Usually when she does say anything, she speaks with a kind of quiet pride about how the Chinese people and government are dealing with the tragedy. She's especially proud of how people from the other provinces are doing whatever they can to help total strangers. She's made comments to the effect that this is a change from the way things have been in the past. She's very proud of that as well. I'm curious as to how others' wives/fiancees are dealing with it and what their reaction to it has been.
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Do you know the provinces which are prone to earth quakes in china? I know the Indian plate is pushing against the Eurasian plate causing the Himalayan mountains to grow taller, while causing earth quakes in China, India and Pakistan. Last earth quake in china (about 20 years ago, I think) killed over 240,000 people. I Googled it. Nothing much came out of that.
