This podcast is of D J Clark's weekly video story, published on the China Daily website. The features cover a variety of subjects from in depth special reports to travel and regional events.
D J Clark is a contract multimedia reporter for China Daily, Director of Visual Journalism at the Asia Center for Journalism and Course leader on the MA International Multimedia Journalism at Beijing Foreign Studies University (in collaboration with the University of Bolton, UK). He also researches and writes about visual journalism as a vehicle for social change, the subject that drives both his journalistic and academic work. DJ runs visual journalism workshops throughout the world most recently for Canon in China and the Philippines, The British Council in Croatia, Mozambique and Vietnam and World Press Photo in the Philippines and across Africa. In 2008 he gave a keynote speech at the World Press Photo Awards on the growth of Majority World Photojournalism based on a PhD he completed in 2009 at the University of Durham that focused on photojournalism as a tool for social change in the Developing World.
Starting his career in 1988 D J Clark worked first as a photojournalist before moving into video journalism and later as a multimedia journalist. Over the last 23 years he has covered stories all over the world for leading newspapers, magazines, news agencies and TV stations. In 2006 he moved permanently to China where he is now based covering news throughout Asia.
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This podcast is of D J Clark's weekly video story, published on the China Daily website. The features cover a variety of subjects from in depth special reports to travel and regional events.
D J Clark is a contract multimedia reporter for China Daily, Director of Visual Journalism at the Asia Center for Journalism and Course leader on the MA International Multimedia Journalism at Beijing Foreign Studies University (in collaboration with the University of Bolton, UK). He also researches and writes about visual journalism as a vehicle for social change, the subject that drives both his journalistic and academic work. DJ runs visual journalism workshops throughout the world most recently for Canon in China and the Philippines, The British Council in Croatia, Mozambique and Vietnam and World Press Photo in the Philippines and across Africa. In 2008 he gave a keynote speech at the World Press Photo Awards on the growth of Majority World Photojournalism based on a PhD he completed in 2009 at the University of Durham that focused on photojournalism as a tool for social change in the Developing World.
Starting his career in 1988 D J Clark worked first as a photojournalist before moving into video journalism and later as a multimedia journalist. Over the last 23 years he has covered stories all over the world for leading newspapers, magazines, news agencies and TV stations. In 2006 he moved permanently to China where he is now based covering news throughout Asia.
Over the past six weeks China Daily reporter D J Clark has been walking the Beijing waterways, discovering five unique day walks that have taken him to all four corners of the city. In the last of seven videos Clark talks to the author of “Beijing’s Forgotten Waterways” and shares some of his discoveries.
Since the 11th century in Beijing, dynastic emperors built moats to defend their city walls, and it is a loop of these waterways that makes up the last of the five walks in this series. Once again it is Kublai Khan and his grand architect Gou Shoujing that we have to thank for building the moats, most of which still stand today in various states of repair. In part six of Walking the Beijing Waterways, D J Clark takes off along the Yuan dynasty circuit.
In part five of Walking the Beijing Waterways, D J Clark starts near the international exhibition center where the Bahe river spills out into the northern moats and heads 12 km east out beyond the 5th ring road to where the river meets the second airport express way. Of all the walks this one takes him the furthest from the city center and in doing so he passes through urban and increasingly rural communities.
In part four of Walking the Beijing Waterways, D J Clark starts where the last walk finished, at the entrance to Yuyuantan Park under the old CCTV Tower in the far west of the city. It's the longest of the five walks at 26 km and takes a full day to complete. Divided into two sections, the first follows the Yongding River to where it meets the city moats of the Qing Dynasty and follows them in a horse shoe around to the Beijing Railway Station where it meets the Tonghui canal. The second section follows the water east towards the Grand Canal.
In part three of Walking the Beijing waterways, D J Clark takes off on a 13 km western walk that is broadly divided into two halves. The first is a pleasant stroll through the vast grounds of the Summer Palace and around the Kunming Lake. The second consists a long straight walk south along the wide Jingmi Canal which sits below the busy western edge of the city.
In part two of Walking the Beijing Waterways, D J Clark takes off on a central route that loops around a series of lakes and moats which takes him into the heart of the city and the walls of the Forbidden City.
Often the best way to explore a new city is by foot and Beijing is no exception. Although the city gets a lot of bad press for it’s high levels of pollution, it also has clear days and a lot of parks and paths to explore. In this video China Daily reporter D J Clark introduces five different one day walks using the myriad of canals, rivers and lakes to guide him away from the traffic and discover areas of the city few visitors get to experience.
Kesha is from a small village in Nepal’s western hills. She continues her traditional proffession of tailoring. She is a widely respected community leader in her district of Parbat and also advocates for rural entrepreneurs at the national level.
Chitrakali comes from the Magar community in the western hills. She
has taken her traditional skills in collecting and weaving wild
Himalayan stinging nettle, and turning the "allo" fibres into a
multitude of products. She now provides indirect employment to
hundreds of women in her district. She is a highly successful
entrepreneur and community leader.
Devaki is from the hills in Nuwarkot, north of Kathmandu. Born into
the highest Brahmin caste, her family lost all that they had during a
major flood. She now lives on a small piece of land, where she leads a
workshop and cooperative, weaving Nepal’s traditional "dhaka" cloth.
Pinki is from the Maithili community of Nepal’s eastern Terai
(plains). Her story shows the changing family dynamics especially in
conservative Hindu societies of the Terai. Her enterprise is based on
an old traditional practice of making bangles from a native tree-sap
called ‘Laha’.
Parbati Rai truly represents a modern Nepali woman living in rural eastern Nepal. Unlike your stereotypical village woman, she is very outspoken, highly independent and a local martial arts instructor.
Mina comes from a ethnic caste of Kumal, which for generations has
produced clay pots. Now with cheaper plastic products coming from
India and China, they have lost their traditional livelihood. She now
runs her own beauty parlour in remote western Terai (plains).
Durga is from a marginalised ethnic group known as Danuwars, from
the inner-Terai of eastern Nepal. She has endured a difficult life,
living with disability with limited support in her rural village. She
now runs her own enterprise making daalmot (snacks) for the district
market.
Pawa is from a small Badi community on the outskirts of Dailekh
bazaar. The Badi people are one of the most discriminated and
oppressed sub-castes in Nepali society. Considered "untouchables",
they are placed at the bottom even amongst other untouchables. Their
community has begun small-scale pig farming to improve their
livelihoods.
Kalpana is a former ‘Kamaiya’ (bonded labourer). Now, she runs her
own tailoring enterprise, providing employment and training to other
former female bonded labourers.
Nestled in the mountains of north Sichuan, the Jiuzhai valley is possibly one of China’s most picturesque landscapes. In winter the waterfalls ice up and the snow covered mountains gleam in the lakes below, truly a magical experience. In a short interview with Sichuan travel expert Brian Glorioso, China Daily discovers that escaping into the Jiuzhaigou wilderness is a little harder than you would imagine.
You Zhong Ding Da, was born in Jianpan village, one of just a handful of small Tibetan communities within the Jiuzhai Gou National park. He has grown up seeing his home valley in northern Sichuan Province change into one of the China’s most popular tourist destinations. China daily reporter D J Clark met him at the Zharu Monastery and asked him what the place meant to him.
Cecilia Chen worked for ten years in public relations until one day she decided to give up her day job, pick up a camera and notepad and take to the road. She is now one of a new breed of freelance Chinese journalists who are tapping into the growing independent travel market, wandering the world and publishing stories of their adventures. China Daily’s D J Clark caught up with her at her latest exhibition in Beijing.
Ten finalists competed in the second Jiuzhai Zhuoma beauty contest that ran for more than 50 days across Sichuan’s famous mountain region. The final ten contestants had been narrowed down from a shortlist of 100 by online voters who were asked to select their favourite competitor as the event ran throughout January.
This podcast is of D J Clark's weekly video story, published on the China Daily website. The features cover a variety of subjects from in depth special reports to travel and regional events.
D J Clark is a contract multimedia reporter for China Daily, Director of Visual Journalism at the Asia Center for Journalism and Course leader on the MA International Multimedia Journalism at Beijing Foreign Studies University (in collaboration with the University of Bolton, UK). He also researches and writes about visual journalism as a vehicle for social change, the subject that drives both his journalistic and academic work. DJ runs visual journalism workshops throughout the world most recently for Canon in China and the Philippines, The British Council in Croatia, Mozambique and Vietnam and World Press Photo in the Philippines and across Africa. In 2008 he gave a keynote speech at the World Press Photo Awards on the growth of Majority World Photojournalism based on a PhD he completed in 2009 at the University of Durham that focused on photojournalism as a tool for social change in the Developing World.
Starting his career in 1988 D J Clark worked first as a photojournalist before moving into video journalism and later as a multimedia journalist. Over the last 23 years he has covered stories all over the world for leading newspapers, magazines, news agencies and TV stations. In 2006 he moved permanently to China where he is now based covering news throughout Asia.
