Environmentalist, author Dai Qing will give a lecture, "The Three Gorges Dam: China's Environmental and Political Crisis," on Wednesday, March 10, at 7:30 p.m. in the Fillius Events Barn at Hamilton College. The lecture, which is part of the Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center spring series "The Environment: Public Policy and Social Responsibility," is free and open to the public.
Qing is the author of Yangtze! Yangtze!, a chronicle of the world's largest, and potentially dangerous, Three Gorges Dam project being built on the Yangtze River. She was persecuted for her participation in Tiananmen and was a jailmate of Mao's widow. The recipient of many prestigious awards (e.g., Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, Freedom Forum Fellowship at Columbia University, and Goldman Environmental Award), she has also published 10 books in Chinese and English.
