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The Green Revolution in China
Drawing on his chapter in the recently published chinadialogue book China and the Environment: The Green Revolution, Liu Jianqiang will relate the role that NGOs, news media and community leaders played in forming an environmental movement opposing a dam on the Tiger Leaping Gorge.
When:
April 30, 2013 2:00pm to 4:00pm
Where
Drawing on his chapter in the recently published chinadialogue book China and the Environment: The Green Revolution, Liu Jianqiang will relate the role that NGOs, news media and community leaders played in forming an environmental movement opposing a dam on the Tiger Leaping Gorge. This project on the upper Yangtze River has received considerably less attention than the grassroots opposition to the Nujiang dams, but is an equally insightful example of growing citizen activism against large dams.
Judith Shapiro will set the stage for Liu Jianqiang’s discussion, drawing on her book China’s Environmental Challenges to talk about civil society and environmental justice trends in China. She will also highlight the traditional and evolving role of China’s engaged environmental journalists, such as Binyan Liu, Lihong Shi, Zhinong Xi.
We will also show a short clip of the documentary Waking the Green Tiger, which was directed and written by Gary Marcuse.
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