Citations:tofu-dreg


 * 2015, John C. Mutter, The Disaster Profiteers: How Natural Disasters Make the Rich Richer and the Poor Even Poorer, Macmillan (ISBN 9781137278982), page 95:
 * teachers, teaching assistants, and school nurses would have died in the Sichuan earthquake in 2008 had the buildings not been made of tofu dregs.
 * 2016, Han Han, The Problem with Me: And Other Essays About Making Trouble in China Today, Simon and Schuster (ISBN 9781451660050), page 20:
 * Tofu dregs, which crumble at the slightest touch, have become the go-to image for referring to building and infrastructure projects that use substandard materials and shoddy design to cut costs during construction.
 * 2016, Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, Guobin Yang, The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China, University of Pennsylvania Press (ISBN 9780812292664), page 36:
 * Between 2008 and 2009, he investigated student casualties due to the collapse of “tofu-dreg” (shoddy) school buildings in the aftermath of the Sichuan earthquake. A list of 5,385 names was collected, for which he was severely beaten.
 * 2021, Ai Weiwei, 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir, Crown (ISBN 9780553419474)
 * Corruption is not to be discussed, “tofu-dregs construction” [a metaphor for shoddy work, using flimsy materials] is off limits, unpleasant evidence is suppressed. In the name of “stability maintenance,” they threaten, detain, ...