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  • Prof. William A. Joseph: wjoseph@wellesley.edu
  • Department of Political Science
  • Wellesley College
  • Date Created: October 5, 1996
  • Last Modified: July-August 2011
  • Expires: June 30, 2012

The Great Tangshan Earthquake (1976)

Return to Tangshan Fillm of my return to Tangshan in July 2006, nearly 35 years after my first visit in 1972. The occasion was an exhibition of photographs that I had taken of the city just a few years before the Great Earthquake.

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Integration of Public Administration and Earthquake Science: The Best Practice Case of Qinglong County (Global Watch) r

TANGSHAN: Earthquake, July 28, 1976, An Ominous Rumbling (Time-Asia)

The Great Tangshan Earthquake of 1976 (2002 Report, California Institute of Technology)

Social Responses to the Tangshan Earthquake (Jifeng Li, University of Delaware Natural Disaster Research Center, 1991)

The 1976 Great Tangshan Earthquake -- A Thirty Year Retrospective(PDF) Risk Management Solutions Risk Management Solutions

Chinese Propaganda Posters: Earthquake (Stefan Landsberger)er)

Commemoration of the 30th Anniversary of the Great Earthquake

Tangshan Earthquake: Unforgotten History (China Daily)

China Marks Tangshan Earthquake (BBC)

Tangshan Earthquake -- 30 Years' Sorrow (gov.cn) (china.org.cn)