Dai Qing

Probe International Fellow, activist and journalist Dai Qing has been speaking out against the Three Gorges Dam since the 1980s. She published Yangtze! Yangtze! in 1989, a book of essays highlighting the concerns about the environmental and social effects of the dam, followed by The River Dragon has Come in 1998. Though Dai Qing faces constant harassment by Chinese authorities and is forbidden to publish in China, she has chosen to remain in Beijing where she continues to fight for freedom of the press, government accountability, and an open debate over the Three Gorges dam. She has been honoured with Fellowships from Harvard, Columbia, and the Australian National University, with the International PEN Award for Freedom, and the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Articles and reports written by Dai Qing, quoting Dai Qing or referencing Dai Qing:

The most dammed country in the world

Why is China’s police department still running Canada’s visa office in Beijing?

Dai Qing’s “Green Ideas”

Relaxing China’s one-child policy

Never-ending, hidden rules

Activist Dai Qing: How China limits change, and stores discontent

Dai Qing barred from writers’ meeting

Dai Qing: On The Completion of the Three Gorges Project

Dai Qing: People’s power

The expensive Three Gorges flood control project

Huang Wanli’s predictions for the Three Gorges come to pass