It’s okay.
And it’s mostly just me posting.
The larger community is on reddit /r/Sino, but there are even larger communities on red like /r/China that consists primarily of non-Chinese China haters.
I post a lot because of the size of /r/Sino being so large that there’s always something interesting there to copy-paste and I sometimes find interesting tidbits as well.
I do this because I don’t think reddit is the right platform for pro-sovereignity discussions unless it’s the US.
Since I have come across many anti-China posts from certain sources, DW, Wion, NYT, Bloomberg, BBC, public broadcasting news from my own country, late night shows including from my own country, Falun Gong, ADVChina and SCMP commenters, it makes the situation for me very tense and I apologize if I came on too strong.
So yes, this community is not a good post for this, because I live in Europe and I can only do simple searches as well.
I’m a curious person too, so I will do my own simple searches as well and attempt to contact with youtuber immigrants in China, see if they bite.
Perhaps it’s best to share our search results.
thechinawiki.com seems dead.
Russia TV has no mention of Dabancheng.
I found an article in Chinese that seems to have copy-pasted a BBC article on it from 2018 and 2015.
They have a phone number if you feel particularly brave enough.
My advice is to try and contact Daniel Dumbrill with your question.
I can’t find any points of contact besides twitter and facebook and I stopped using them for years now and I’m not going back to using them again.
I have looked at it again. I found the place on google maps and openstreetmap.
From what I can tell the twelve U-buildings really is a prison complex, while the H-buildings do not seem to have a wall surrounding it.
There’s another even newer prison of similar size quite close it.
You can tell by the watch towers.
What I’ve also found is this in Ürümqi. This one lacks guard towers and no longer has a road leading up to it, but an adjacent road. Plus one space seems to be now used as a parking space. Has it turned into something else already?
This is another one. This one looks really really old.
This one has a giant hole in it on the left.
I stand by my guess that they’re just relocating their older prisons.
It’s okay.
And it’s mostly just me posting.
The larger community is on reddit /r/Sino, but there are even larger communities on red like /r/China that consists primarily of non-Chinese China haters.
I post a lot because of the size of /r/Sino being so large that there’s always something interesting there to copy-paste and I sometimes find interesting tidbits as well. I do this because I don’t think reddit is the right platform for pro-sovereignity discussions unless it’s the US.
Since I have come across many anti-China posts from certain sources, DW, Wion, NYT, Bloomberg, BBC, public broadcasting news from my own country, late night shows including from my own country, Falun Gong, ADVChina and SCMP commenters, it makes the situation for me very tense and I apologize if I came on too strong.
So yes, this community is not a good post for this, because I live in Europe and I can only do simple searches as well.
I’m a curious person too, so I will do my own simple searches as well and attempt to contact with youtuber immigrants in China, see if they bite.
Perhaps it’s best to share our search results.
thechinawiki.com seems dead. Russia TV has no mention of Dabancheng.
I found an article in Chinese that seems to have copy-pasted a BBC article on it from 2018 and 2015.
Dabancheng(District) is mentioned as: 达坂城(区)
And prison as: 监狱
The area has it’s own website. http://www.dabancheng.gov.cn/
They have a phone number if you feel particularly brave enough.
My advice is to try and contact Daniel Dumbrill with your question. I can’t find any points of contact besides twitter and facebook and I stopped using them for years now and I’m not going back to using them again.
Thank you! I’ll keep doing some research and if I ever find anything, I’ll share it!
I have looked at it again. I found the place on google maps and openstreetmap.
From what I can tell the twelve U-buildings really is a prison complex, while the H-buildings do not seem to have a wall surrounding it.
There’s another even newer prison of similar size quite close it.
You can tell by the watch towers.
What I’ve also found is this in Ürümqi. This one lacks guard towers and no longer has a road leading up to it, but an adjacent road. Plus one space seems to be now used as a parking space. Has it turned into something else already?
This is another one. This one looks really really old.
This one has a giant hole in it on the left.
I stand by my guess that they’re just relocating their older prisons.