1st Edition
The River Dragon Has Come! Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People
By Dai Qing, John G. Thibodeau, Michael R Williams, Qing Dai, Ming Yi, Audrey Ronning Topping
Copyright 1998
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
270 Pages
by
Routledge
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In the ongoing courageous struggle of a relatively small group of Chinese to prevent the completion of the Three Gorges Dam in China, Dai Qing is the outspoken leader whose eloquent voice is always heard despite threats and intimidation by the Chinese authorities to silence it. Dai Qing, an investigative journalist and author with a wide audience in China and abroad, compiled this book of essays... Read more
The Three Gorges Project - a Symbol of Uncontrolled Development in the Late 20th Century, Dai Qing; A Profile of Dams in China, Shui Fu; The World's Most Catastrophic Dam Failures - the August 1975 Collapse of the Banqiao and Shimantan Dams, Yi Si; Discussing Population Resettlement with Li Boning - 1 - General Plan for Population Resettlement, Li Boning, 2 - Is Developmental Resettlement Possible?, Qi Ren; The Environmental Impacts of Resettlement in the Three Gorges Project, Chen Guojie; What are the Three Gorges Resettlers Thinking?, Ding Qigang; A Survey of Resettlement in Badong County, Hubei Province, Ding Qigang and Zheng Jiaqin; Resettlement in the Xin'an River Power Station Project, Mou Mo and Cai Wenmei; The Danger to Historical Relics and Cultural Antiquities In and Around the Three Gorges Area - Interviews with the Director of the National History Museum of China, Yu Weichao and Dai Qing; A Lamentation for the Yellow River - the Three Gate Gorge Dam Sanmenxia, Shang Wei; Water Pollution in the Three Gorges Reservoir, Jin Hui; Military Perspectives on the Three Gorges Project, Da Bing; Epilogue - the New Golden Triangle of China, Richard Hayman; Appendices: Acknowledgements from "General Plan for Population Resettlement", Li Boning; Sediment Problems at the Three Gorges Dam, Luna B. Leopold; The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Southern Heritage, Elizabeth Childs-Johnson and Lawrence R. Sullivan; Priority Level Cultural Antiquities in the Three Gorges Area; Archaeological Sites to be Inundated in 1997 by the Construction of the Three Gorges Dam; Letter to Jiang Zemin Concerning Archaeological Sites.
Biography
Authored by Qing, Dai; Thibodeau, John G.; Williams, Michael R; Dai, Qing; Yi, Ming; Topping, Audrey Ronning
