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Building blocks of recovery

By Huang Zhiling and Wang Wei | China Daily | Updated: 2008-08-05 07:46

Building blocks of recovery

Print artists of the Zhongcheng Lunar New Year Print Studio make and sell prints in Mianzhu. Huang Zhiling

Mianzhu is one of the many Sichuan cities rising from the ashes. Some 20,000 residents were killed in the May earthquake and half of the remaining 500,000 people still live in tents. The cost of human life is unimaginable. How does a community recover when husbands, wives, mothers, fathers, sons and daughters are lost forever? People are now picking up the pieces of their shattered lives and some locals are turning to an age-old printing craft to help them recover.

Building blocks of recovery

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