Dai Qing

Dai Qing (Chinese戴晴, Pinyin Dài Qing, born August 1941) is a Chinese journalist, writer, dissident and environmental activist who has become known primarily for their actions and books against the Three Gorges Dam to a wider public.

Biography

Dai Qing was born in August 1941 in Chongqing, the daughter of Fu Daqing, a well-known communists and intellectuals, and Yang Jie. After her father was killed in 1944 by Japanese soldiers, she was adopted by Ye Jianying, a prominent politician and military and her father's friend.

1966 closed Dai Qing from studying engineering at the Military Academy in Harbin. Then they went on for some time for training to Japan. Upon her return, she worked for the military and then became one of the measures of the Cultural Revolution in the meantime sent with her husband Wang Dejia to work on the land while they had their daughter Wang xiaojia leave Beijing. After her return, she no longer worked again for the army, but as an engineer. In 1982, she left the army finally and began working as a journalist for the newspaper Guangming Daily.

In the following time Dai Qing began as a dissident and environmental activist come forward and criticized primarily the project of the Three Gorges Dam. In 1989 she published her book Yangtze! Yangtze! , Which brought her international fame and recognition, but also led to increased confrontation with the Chinese government. The persecution of dissidents after the Tiananmen Square Massacre led on 14 July 1989 they were arrested and a 10-month prison sentence. After her release in 1990 she publicly declared their withdrawal from the Communist Party and went back to Beijing. Her work as a journalist, she no longer took on, as it is occupied since 1989 in China with a publication ban. However, it is still (private) worked as a writer and activist.

In 1992, she was honored for her work with the International PEN Award for Freedom and 1993 she received the Goldman Environment Prize.

In September 2009, the appearance of Dai Qing led at the symposium "China and the World - Perceptions and Reality" at the Frankfurt Book Fair an uproar. When her and the Chinese exiles were given the opportunity to have a statement Bei Ling, the official Chinese delegation left temporarily to protest the hall. Even before there had been disputes about the invitation of Chinese dissidents. Under pressure from the partner country of the Book Fair 2009, China, the planned invitation for Dai Qing has been reversed or no longer sent to her. However, this led to a strong criticism of the German public, due to which the fair management revised its stance in consultation with the Chinese delegation again and Dai Qing and Bei Ling invited but the symposium. However, the fair management was the Chinese delegation not informed that the two dissidents the opportunity for a brief address should be given. This then led to the protest of the delegation, as the dissidents, the word was given.

On the occasion of the awarding of the Nobel Peace Prize to Liu Xiaobo in December 2010 criticized the writer the Western Sinology. Some sinologist persuaded the regime beautiful, by speaking instead of dictatorship of authoritarianism.

Publications

  • No: A Collection of Short Stories (不:中 短篇小说 集) ( 1982)
  • Spring Story of the Red Rock (红岩 英魂 逢春 记) ( # Meng Yong, Dai Qing, Li Jiajie /孟勇,戴晴,李家杰 著) { China - History - Civil War } (1983 )
  • Spirit (魂) { Collection of Articles } (1985 )
  • Red Alert: Report of the Da Xing An Ling Forest Fires (红色 警报:大兴安岭 森林 大火 直击 报导) { report } (1987 )
  • Liang Shuming, Zhang Shizhao and Mao Zedong (梁漱溟,章士钊 与 毛泽东) { China } Interllectual Life (1988 )
  • Yangtze! Yangtze! (扬子!扬子! )
  • Changjiang, Changjiang: Arguments Regarding the Three Gorges Dam Project (长江 长江:三峡 工程 论争) (主编 戴晴;副 主编 刚 建,何小娜,董郁玉) { Dams -China Yangtze River Gorges } (1989 )
  • An Offering to the Heart (心 祭) { } Chinese Fiction (1989 )
  • Liang Shuming, Wang Shiwei, Chu Anping (梁漱溟,王实味,储安平) { } Intellectuals China (1989 )
  • Sentimental Women Writing for (. Dai Qing et al ) (斋 女:女 性感 抒 文学/戴晴 等着) ( 1993)
  • Whose River: Can a Developing China be Responsible of the Three Gorges Dam Project (谁 的 长江:发展 中 的 中国 能否 承担 三峡 工程) ( Dai Qing, Xue Weijia ) (编者 戴晴,薛 炜 嘉) ( 1996)
  • The River Dragon Has Come! (水 龙 来 了! ) (1997 )
  • Tiananmen Follies: Prison Memoirs and Other Writings (2003)

Swell

  • Interview with Dai Qing in Focus 17 July 1995 (No. 29)
  • Short biography on a webpage of the University of Zurich ( pdf) ( 2.21 MB )
  • Short article about Dai Qing in Businessweek
  • Dai Qing on the website of the Goldman Prize
  • Geremie BARME, Jonathan Unger: The Case of Dai Qing. In The New York Review of Books. Volume 52, Number 18, November 17, 2005
  • Claus -Jürgen Goepfert: apologies to Dai Qing - Interview and short biography on the website of the Frankfurter Rundschau on September 13, 2009
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