Silencing critics Nov 2, 2009
Chinese officials objected to writer Dai Qing speaking in Frankfurt ... But Chinese officials were angry when they found out writers Dai Qing and Bei Ling had been invited to a symposium connected to the fair ... But writer Dai Qing, who is also an environmental campaigner, believes China's increasing economic muscle has emboldened the country's leaders. (BBC News -- Asia-Pacific)
China's culture offensive hits a wall Oct 27, 2009
Author-in-exile Bei Ling and writer Dai Qing, whose books about the Tiananmen pro-democracy movement and the Three Gorges Dam - the world's largest dam, which has generated much controversy at home and abroad - are banned on the mainland, represented dissident China ... Bei Ling and Dai Qing were barred from making speeches at the closing ceremony. (Asia Times Online)
China's Troubled Coming-Out at Book Fair Oct 21, 2009
Frankfurt Book Fair: China Finds Trouble with Dai Qing - TIME ... Dai Qing is hardly the sort of writer whom China wanted to be given a platform at the Frankfurt Book Fair, the largest annual event of its kind. (Time.com)
* FEATURE : Chinese get cold shoulder in Frankfurt Oct 18, 2009
Social critics such as the Beijing environmentalist Dai Qing () and London-based voice of the downtrodden Ma Jian () were not invited, but they came to the fair anyway, at the expense of publishers and activist groups and have been widely quoted in the German media. Unlike Book Fair officials, Zhao did not offer this as evidence of balance. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Frankfurt book fair's controversial guest of honor: China Oct 17, 2009
And when Chinese officials walked out of a pre-fair symposium to protest the presence of two dissident writers, Dai Qing and Bei Ling, many asked: Did China deserve to be invited to the world's biggest publishing marketplace. But books build bridges, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said at the book fair's opening ceremony Tuesday. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
China special guest at Frankfurt book fair Oct 13, 2009
The September spat erupted when dissident writers Dai Qing and Bei Ling attended the symposium, despite a Chinese attempt to block them. "I hope that this can be a beginning of a cultural dialogue," book fair director Juergen Boos recently told reporters. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
* [LITERATURE] Chinese exile decries censorship Sep 14, 2009
wake of a decision by organizers of a symposium titled China and the World, which took place on Saturday and yesterday in Frankfurt, to meet Chinese participants demands and not invite him and Dai Qing (). a journalist critical of the. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
'King of Xinjiang' faces blame for riots Jul 16, 2009
Dai Qing, a former journalist with the national Guangming Daily, wrote in her blog on a Hong Kong website that the violence began to take place five and half hours after Uyghur protesters gathered. During such a long time, "Where was Urumqi municipal party secretary Li Zhi, where was Xinjiang party secretary Wang Lequan, who have the power to mobilize tens of thousands of members of the police force?". (Asia Times Online)
Tiananmen: 20 years on Jun 4, 2009
Dai Qing, a prominent Beijing-based critic of the government who spent time in jail after the crackdown, said she was following a call by overseas dissidents to wear the traditional colour of mourning to mark the anniversary. "I'm wearing white," she told AFP.. (iAfrica.com)
* KMT and CCP make ominous bedfellows Feb 17, 2009
No wonder that exiled Chinese democracy activist Wang Dan () has criticized Chinas statements at the UNs Human Rights Council as a load of rubbish, while writer Dai Qing () has said the report they submitted was official speak that cannot be trusted. Chinas saying one thing and doing another is legendary. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Sports)
