(November 3, 2010) The ongoing fight to safeguard Beijing`s dwindling water supplies and a personal battle against China’s controversial Three Gorges dam will be the subject of a special public lecture in Vancouver by leading Chinese environmental activist and journalist, Dai Qing.
Student seminar with Dai Qing, China’s leading environmentalist
(November 3, 2010) The Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS) is pleased to offer UVic students a special meeting with China’s leading environmental activist and author, Dai Qing.
Leading Chinese environmental activist, Dai Qing, to speak at UVic
(November 3, 2010) CAPI is very pleased to welcome Dai Qing, the leading voice of the environmental movement in China, to the UVic campus in early November 2010.
Yangtze! Yangtze! Named one of the best books about water
(May 28, 2010) In a recent interview, Johnny Grimond, a writer-at-large for The Economist said Dai Qing’s “Yangtze! Yangtze!” was one of the best books about water. Mr. Grimond said that Ms. Dai “has written courageously about China’s dams and rivers.”
China in the next 60 years: Dai Qing
(September 29, 2009) Environmentalist and dissident writer Dai Qing provides her take on what the future holds for China.
Thirsty dragon at the Olympics
(December 6, 2007) After the Olympics, how will Beijing’s insatiable thirst for water be satisfied? asks Chinese environmentalist Dai Qing in this week’s New York Review of Books.
China’s Environment
(September 1, 2006) Bruce Gellerman interview with Dai Qing
Dai Qing comments on ‘completion’ of the Three Gorges dam
(May 16, 2006) Dai Qing delivers a talk on the Three Gorges dam at Sanwei Bookstore in Beijing.
Dai Qing: ‘I have been trying to make a public speech for the past 16 years’
(November 23, 2005) Dai Qing talks to Hong Kong news magazine Asia Weekly about her first public appearance in China since 1989.
Three Gorges and the environment
(November 15, 2005) Three Gorges Probe exclusive Dai Qing’s first public talk in China since 1989: ‘Three Gorges and the environment’
Human rights abuses and the Three Gorges dam
(March 19, 2004) Dai Qing, eminent Beijing-based journalist and veteran campaigner against the Three Gorges dam, discusses the suppression of opposition to the project in a recent talk at the University of Toronto in Canada.
Dammed if she doesn’t
(April 7, 2001) Dai Qing lives for one thing: to stop China’s Three Gorges dam being built across the Yangtze river. Why? She says it will displace 1.5 million people and cause devastating environmental damage.
‘My Books Are Banned. But I Can Speak Outside’
(June 14, 1999) Business Week Asia Editor Sheri Prasso interviewed Dai on a brief visit to New York in early May.
Chinese environmentalist Dai Qing speaks out on Three Gorges dam
(May 26, 1999) In New York on May 4, Environment News Service reporter Wang Ai interviewed Dai Qing on the current situation with the construction of Three Gorges Dam and on her own story of becoming environmentally conscious.
As Yangtze Rises, China Must Choose
(August 7, 1998) As China’s worst Yangtze flood in half a century hits, the government must decide whether to submerge poor rural districts in order to save large cities like Wuhan. Environmentalist Dai Qing says the Three Gorges Dam would not help.
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