The River Dragon Has Come!
About Probe International
Probe International is a Toronto-based independent environmental advocacy organization that monitors and exposes the effects of Canadian aid and trade in the Third World. As a leader in the worldwide campaign to stop Chinas Three Gorges dam project, Probe International has published two books about the dam, Damming the Three Gorges: What Dam-Builders Dont Want You to Know, edited by Margaret Barber and Grinne Ryder (Toronto: Earthscan Canada, 2d ed., 1993), and Yangtze! Yangtze!, edited by Dai Qing (Toronto: Earthscan Canada, 1994). Probe International, Canadas most vociferous critic of foreign aid, educates and informs the public about agencies such as the federal governments Canadian International Development Agency and Export Development Corporation, and about international agencies that are funded with Canadian tax dollars, such as the World Bank. Probe International names names. Because Probe International isnt dependent on governments or industry for its funding, it is free to reveal exactly who is doing what and when. Probe International is accountable to the public at large, from whom the bulk of its funding comes in the form of small donations from its 20,000 supporters across Canada.
About International Rivers Network
International Rivers Network (IRN) is the worlds leading organization dedicated to developing and assisting a global grassroots movement to protect rivers and watersheds for the people and ecosystems dependent upon them. Through research into alternative energy generation, irrigation and flood management schemes, pressure for policy reform at international finance institutions such as the World Bank, and active media and educational campaigns directed at projects around the world, IRN discourages investment in destructive large-scale river development, while encouraging strategies that are more environmentally, socially, and economically sound.
Over the past decade, IRN has built a network of more than 1,000 citizens organizations and technical experts in 93 countries who are working to protect freshwater resources, endangered ecosystems, and indigenous peoples worldwide.
The River Dragon Has Come!
The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of Chinas Yangtze River and Its People
Dai Qing
Edited by
John G. Thibodeau and Philip B. Williams
Foreword by Audrey Ronning Topping
Translated by Yi Ming
Probe International
International Rivers Network
An East Gate Book
First published 1998 by M.E. Sharpe
Published 2015 by Routledge
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
The river dragon has come! : the three gorges dam and the fate of Chinas Yangtze River and Its People / [compiled by] Dai Qing ; edited by John G. Thibodeau and Philip B. Williams ; with a foreword by Audrey Ronning Topping ; translated by Ming Yi.
p. cm.
Probe International, International Rivers Network.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7656-0205-9 (cloth: alk. paper)
ISBN 0-7656-0206-7 (pbk: alk. paper)
1. San hsia shui li shu niu (China). 2. DamsChinaYangtze River Gorges. 3. ChineseRelocationHistory20th century. I. Qing, Dai II. Thibodeau, John, 1968- . III. Williams, Philip B. IV. Probe International. V. International Rivers Network.
TC558.C52T587 1997
333.9100951dc21 97-23982
CIP
ISBN 13: 9780765602060 (pbk)
ISBN 13: 9780765602053 (hbk)
Contents
John G. Thibodeau and Philip B. Williams
Audrey Ronning Topping
Dai Qing
Shui Fu
Yi Si
Qi Ren
Li Boning
Qi Ren
Chen Guojie
Ding Qigang
Ding Qigang and Zheng Jiaqin
Mou Mo and Cai Wenmei
Dai Qing
Shang Wei
Jin Hui
Da Bing
Richard Hayman
Li Boning
Luna B. Leopold
Elizabeth Childs-Johnson and Lawrence R. Sullivan
The Editors
John G. Thibodeau was, until 1997, director of research at Probe International in Toronto, Ontario. For two years, he headed Probe Internationals campaign to stop the Three Gorges dam, and is co-editor, with Probe International Executive Director Patricia Adams, of the English translation of Dai Qings first book on the dam, Yangtze! Yangtze!: Debate Over the Three Gorges Project (London and Toronto: Earthscan Publications Ltd.) in 1994.
Dr. Philip B. Williams, P.E., is the founder and honorary president of International Rivers Network in Berkeley, California. He is also president and principal of the San Francisco consulting firm of Philip Williams & Associates, consultants in hydrology. He is recognized internationally as a leader in new approaches to river, flood, and water resources management.
The Contributors
Chinese
Cai Wenmei: Professor of Sociology, Beijing University.
Chen Guojie: Research Fellow, Chengdu Geological Institute, Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Da Bing: Military commentator and free-lance writer.
Dai Qing: See glossary of names.
Ding Qigang: Beijing University sociologist.
Jin Hui: Journalist for Liberation Army News, the official newspaper of the Peoples Liberation Army.
Mou Mo: Former researcher at a ministry of the Chinese government.
Qi Ren: Pen name for Chinese free-lance writer and newspaper journalist.
Shang Wei: Pen name for a free-lance writer.
Shui Fu: Chinese newspaper journalist.
Yi Si: Pen name for a Peoples Liberation Army journalist who was purged after June 1989.
Zheng Jiaqin: Research sociologist.
Western
Elizabeth Childs-Johnson: Visiting scholar at the New York University Department of East Asian Studies.
