Chapter 11: ‘Time to lay down the law’ At a conference attended by prefecture and county officials on April 21, the joint work team gave a progress report to prefecture commissioner Xu […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 10
Ying Xing March 22, 2005 Chapter 10: Baiyang 16 goes into battle With the dispute over the calcium-carbide factory now a thing of the past, the affected groups in Shanyang turned their […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 9
Ying Xing March 13, 2005 Chapter 9: Let them eat bread! On August 1, 1987, 200 peasants marched to the Dahe station, led by Tailor Wang, Jiang Youheng, Wu Qixian, Yao […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 8
Ying Xing March 9, 2005 Chapter 8: Good guys and bad apples “The top leaders in Beijing are our benefactors, the provincial leaders are like our family members, there are good […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 7
Ying Xing March 2, 2005 Chapter 7: The conflict heats up On October 28, 1984, the head of Shanyang township, Yang Yongquan, was riding his bike over the bridge leading to […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 6
Ying Xing February 22, 2005 Chapter 6: In search of an honest judge After the county and prefecture governments made it clear that local Shanyang cadres had not, in their view, […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 5
Ying Xing February 16, 2005 Chapter 5: Bending the rules “Many problems have been solved to date but there are still problems left over from history. There is therefore a need to […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 4
Ying Xing February 10, 2005 Chapter 4: A crowing rooster and the lonely ghosts A crowing rooster (jiao ji gong) refers to 1) a person who deliberately makes trouble or 2) a […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 2
Ying Xing January 26, 2005 Chapter 2: Down to the grassroots in Shanyang A huge rock lies across the heart of the river like a dragon, The sound of waves can be […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 1
Ying Xing January 20, 2005 Chapter 1: Leftover problems of the Dahe Dam “Since the founding of the People’s Republic of China, the state has allocated a great deal of money to […]
The Story of the Dahe Dam
A fascinating, detailed account of the years-long struggle for redress
pursued by thousands of people who were plunged deeper into poverty by
the construction of the Dahe dam. Many of the farmers uprooted for that
dam, built 30 years ago on a Yangtze tributary in what is now Chongqing
municipality, are being moved again for the Three Gorges project. "To
learn more about what goes on behind the scenes in China, this book
about the ruinous consequences of one small dam is an excellent place
to start," Dai Qing writes in her introduction to the English
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Conclusion
(April 4, 2005) This is the concluding instalment of Three Gorges Probe’s serialization of sociologist Ying Xing’s fascinating, detailed account of the years-long struggle for redress pursued by thousands of people who were plunged deeper into poverty by the construction of the Dahe dam.
The Story of the Dahe Dam: Chapter 3
Chapter 3: A flood of troubles
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