links for 2009-06-17

News in English from China's excellent Caijing magazine.

Large amounts of statistical data on China, including census, provincial statistical yearbooks, etc. May require university login.

Project hosted at Harvard to catalog online information resources for research on East Asia.

"The case of Ms. Deng is only the most recent and prominent of several cases in which the Internet has cracked open a channel for citizens to voice mass displeasure with official conduct, demonstrating its potential as a catalyst for social change."

Software: Interest groups around the world are using mapping tools and internet-based information sources to campaign for change

Sustainable John guest post on deep wells that access ground water for geothermal energy use.