Dai Qing

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  Her real name is Dai Qing, and she is one of China¡¦s most outspoken environmentalists. Born in 1941, she graduated in engineering and worked at a top-secret missile plant. She later became a campaigning journalist who opposed the Three Gorges Dam ¡V Sanmenxia¡¦s gargantuan successor spanning the Yangtze River ¡V and spent 10 months in jail after the Tiananmen Square protests in 1989.
  
  We meet Dai Qing at a newly built retirement community near the airport. She is an energetic woman dressed in navy slacks, with wisps of grey in her short black hair. We squeeze into a tiny lift to reach her fourth-floor apartment, while Dai Qing bounds up the stairs, beating us to her door. It is hard to square this hyperactive granny-figure with the younger woman who, according to her Wikipedia entry, ¡§worked on guided missiles to make them go straight.¡¨
  
  While Dai Qing brims with cheer ¡V she is prone to explosive chuckling ¡V her message is gloomy. ¡§The future is terrible,¡¨ she says. ¡§Maybe you will live in an era when millions of Chinese will be crossing the borders into your countries ¡V not because they want freedom or more than one child, but because they need fresh air and clean water.¡¨ This sounds like hyperbole, until I think about Daying. What if China had 250 ¡§dead-skin villages,¡¨ or 2,500, or a whole region blighted with poisonous water? Suddenly, Dai Qing¡¦s vision seems entirely plausible. She still laments the Yellow River.
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  A grassroots environmental movement is growing in China ¡V the Beijing-based group Friends of Nature had been around for a decade ¡V but not fast enough for Dai Qing. The concept of activism still seems alien to many Chinese. An environmentalist in Datong had explained to me his difficulties in recruiting volunteers. ¡§People always ask, ¡¥How much will you pay me?¡¦¡¦¡¦ he said.

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  PBS documentary "Great Wall Across the Yangtze" featuring Dai Qing now on You Tube
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  PBS documentary "Great Wall Across the Yangtze" featuring Dai Qing now on You Tube
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  Probe International Fellow Dai Qing also plays a prominent role in the film.

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  Dai Qing
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  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.

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  Published on: 9/26/2007    Last Visited: 10/2/2007  

  Probe International Fellow Dai Qing told The Times "We have never stopped talking about the problems but our voice was too weak.

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  Recent revelations about the problems at the Three Gorges Dam may be part of an attempt by senior Chinese officials to distance themselves from the controversial hydropower project, say Probe International's executive director, Patricia Adams, and Probe International Fellow, Dai Qing.
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  Probe International Fellow Dai Qing is due to take up a year-long fellowship at the Australian National University, where she hopes to finish a book about dictatorships and liberal intellectuals.The Sydney Morning Herald outlines her unique history as an activist. [Full story]
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  For environmental activists such as the journalist Dai Qing, whose book Yangtze!Yangtze! earned her 10 months in a maximum security prison and the threat of the death sentence, the official admission that the Three Gorges dam is a potential environmental disaster was received with bitter irony. (The Independent UK) [Full story]
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  Probe International Fellow Dai Qing told The Times "We have never stopped talking about the problems but our voice was too weak.

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  Probe Fellow Dai Qing responds to New York Times readers' online queries about China's environmental woes and the Three Gorges dam.
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  But now comes word that the warnings of Dai Qing and others were true. [Full story]
  
  China to move four million more from Three Gorges area October 12, 2007Four million people will be forced to leave their homes near the Three Gorges dam reservoir area after officials warned of a potential environmental "catastrophe" there.The announcement follows a stunning admission by Chinese officials that dam-related problems are putting the lives of nearby residents in danger.Probe International fellow Dai Qing, however, decries officials for now "all of a sudden" acknowledging what experts have been warning all along."I am ashamed of you all," she said. [Full story]
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  Recent revelations about the problems at the Three Gorges Dam may be part of an attempt by senior Chinese officials to distance themselves from the controversial hydropower project, say Probe International's executive director, Patricia Adams, and Probe International Fellow, Dai Qing.
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  For environmental activists such as the journalist Dai Qing, whose book Yangtze!Yangtze! earned her 10 months in a maximum security prison and the threat of the death sentence, the official admission that the Three Gorges dam is a potential environmental disaster was received with bitter irony. [Full story]
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  Probe International Fellow Dai Qing, one of 40 prominent Chinese activists and writers, called on Chinese and world leaders last week asking them to respect human rights in the lead up to the Beijing 2008 Olympics. [Full story]

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  Probe International Fellow Dai Qing, one of 40 prominent Chinese activists and writers, called on Chinese and world leaders to respect human rights in the lead up to the Beijing 2008 Olympics on the eve of the one-year countdown to the Games. [Full story]

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  Probe International Fellow Dai Qing, one of 40 prominent Chinese activists and writers, called on Chinese and world leaders last week asking them to respect human rights in the lead up to the Beijing 2008 Olympics on the eve of the one-year countdown to the Games.
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  Dai Qing's letter was released the same day as Amnesty International's report accusing China of failing to honour its commitments in the run-up to next year's Olympic games, and the unfurling by Students for a Free Tibet of a 42-square-metre banner at the Great Wall reading "One World, One Dream, Free Tibet 2008."

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  Probe International Fellow Dai Qing, one of 40 prominent Chinese activists and writers, called on Chinese and world leaders last week asking them to respect human rights in the lead up to the Beijing 2008 Olympics. [Full story]

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  Dai Qing (China), journalist and activist against the Three Gorges Dam project in China;

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