(May 4, 2000) ‘The electricity produced by the dam is much more expensive than that produced in other ways, because it costs tons of money to relocate local people and to offset the disasters it has caused to build the dam,’ says journalist Dai Qing.

(May 3, 2000) Article excerpt: …The dam’s most outspoken opponent is Dai Qing, a journalist turned activist whose book Yangtze! Yangtze!, which argued that the dam is a waste of money and an environment disaster, brought her 10 months in a maximum security jail.

(March 10, 2000) ‘Many people have known something is wrong with the project, but few have dared to speak up,’ high-profile dam opponent Dai Qing wrote on Three Gorges Probe.

(October 1, 1999) China’s biggest construction project since the Great Wall generates controversy at home and abroad.

(November 3, 1997) As officials prepare to divert China’s mighty Yangtze River to build the world’s largest dam, Chinese journalist Dai Qing is releasing a new book of critical essays about the controversial Three Gorges project.

(November 3, 1997) As officials prepare to divert China’s mighty Yangtze River to build the world’s largest dam, Chinese journalist Dai Qing is releasing a new book of critical essays about the controversial Three Gorges project.

(November 13, 1993) It’s crowded with ancient sites and spectacular scenery. But soon the Three Gorges region of the Yangtze River may disappear forever, writes Donald Morris.

(October 1993) China’s official media have been eager to depict happy peasants thanking the government for their decision to move them out of their poverty-ridden villages on the Yangtze, and give them new homes, jobs and farmland. But this is not the whole story.

(May 27, 1993) Chinese officials yesterday appeared unprepared and unable to answer questions from environmental activists on the economics and environmental feasibility of plans to build world’s largest dam on the Yangtze […]

(May 14, 1993) No dissent has been allowed to stall the Three Gorges dam scheme, inspired by a Mao poem and now pet project of the man held most responsible for the […]

(September 23, 1992) A newly formed coalition is putting pressure on the World Bank and other corporate money-lenders to stop funding China’s controversial Three Gorges Dam.

(September 21, 1992) Foes of a proposed giant dam spanning the Yangtze River in China stepped up their campaign here today by calling on all possible credit sources not to back the project.