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Profile of Dai Qing, Chinese Investigative Journalist

7/10/2019

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Matthew P. Johnson
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This post is part one of a profile series in which Matthew and Natascha write about notable people in twentieth-century environmental history. 

What the world knew about the environmental impact of China’s Three Gorges Dam during its early planning stages was largely thanks to the efforts of Chinese journalist Dai Qing. Three Gorges Dam is a giant dam on the Yangtze (Yangzi) River that the Chinese government erected during the 1990s and 2000s. It is the world’s largest hydroelectric dam in terms of installed capacity—it can produce an impressive 22,500 megawatts—and is one of the world’s most controversial dams because it had a gigantic social and environmental footprint. Read more on the blog.
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Dai Qing. Source: Allison Griner, “China’s ‘Red Princess’ turned Investigative Journalist,” Al Jazeera, March 8, 2016.
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