[BCR] Fwd: [BCR Talk on this Friday] A Path to the Civil Society: Environmental Movement in China 中国民间的环保运动

[Xiaohui Lin]

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From: Tao Xue <tao...@berkeley.edu>
Date: 2008/9/11
Subject: [bcssa-mail] [BCR Talk] A Path to the Civil Society
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Dear all,

 

I am glad to announce BCR (Berkeley China Review)'s first talk of this semester.  We look forward to having you coming and sharing your thoughts with the speaker and other participants.  Please feel free to circulate the announcement to people of interest.  The talk will be given in Chinese.

 

走向公民社会 - 中国民间的环保运动

A Path to the Civil Society

- Environmental Protection Movement in China

 刘鉴强，南方周末资深记者

By LIU Jianqiang, Senior Investigative Journalist, Southern Weekend

 

Time:         7:00 pm - 9:00 pm, Friday, September 12, 2008

Location:    Cheit Hall, C125, Hass Business School

As usual, a dinner is scheduled for 6:00-6:55pm right before the seminar at the Dining Hall of the I-House ($6/person). You are welcome to join us talking with the speaker during the dinner.

 

中国日益严重的环境危机正在催生一场民间环保运动 - 公众开始抵制特殊利益团体和地方政府对环保的不作为。 通过这场运动，中国公众开始争取民权，推进中国的民主。长期关注环境问题的资深记者刘鉴强，将带您走进这场运动。

 

刘鉴强，《南方周末》资深记者。他的有关虎跳峡、圆明园和转基因大米等重大环保事件的调查报道引起了中国社会各界的强烈反响。

• 2004年9月，他报道了富有争议的虎跳峡水电工程。温家宝总理阅读后作出批示，要求停止工程，并展开了一次中央政府的调查。2
• 2004年12月，他的关于转基因大米的报道促使中央政府对非法食品生产进行打击。
• 2005年3月，他报道了圆明园湖底重修工程，引发社会热议。此后，国家环保总局召开了中国第一次全国性的公开的环境听证会。

刘鉴强是2005年国家环保总局举办的中国年度环保人物的提名人。华尔街日报在2006年12月的关于中国调查新闻崛起的报道中，将他列为代表人物。他还获得了亚洲出版人协会（Society of Publishers in Asia）2008年度的环境报道杰出奖。目前，刘鉴强是UC Berkeley新闻学院的访问学者，也是网上环境杂志www.chinadialogue.net的专栏作家。

 

伯克利中国评论（Berkeley China Review）

作为加州大学伯克利分校的一个学生团体，我们致力于建立一个关于中国社会，经济和文化发展问题的讨论平台。评论定期邀请世界各地的关于中国问题的资深学者和专家，举办专题研究和小型讨论会，推动对中国问题的研究和认识。

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China's worsening environmental crisis is catalyzing a growing environmental movement in which the public is resisting special interest groups and opposing the government's environmentally "unfriendly" behaviors.  This movement represents a push toward greater democracy in the country, with the public fighting for its civil rights through protecting the environment.  Chinese investigative journalist Liu Jianqiang,who was involved in the movement will give a presentation and take you inside the movement.

 

LIU Jianqiang is a senior investigative reporter with Southern Weekend, China's most influential investigative newspaper. He is one of the country's best environmental journalists, providing front-line and in-depth coverage of the burgeoning Chinese environmental movement.  Some of Liu's most powerful articles include his September 2004 expose on the controversial Tiger Leaping Gorge dams in southern Yunnan province. The story was personally read by Prime Minister Wen Jiabao，who then ordered the project to be suspended pending a central government investigation. His December 2004 piece on genetically modified rice ignited a central government crackdown on the illegally produced foodstuffs, while his March 2005 article on the Summer Palace lake reconstruction resulted in the State Environmental Protection Administration to hold the country's first state-level public environmental hearing.

 

For his efforts, Liu was a 2005 nominee for the State Environmental Protection Administration's "China Environmental Protection Person of the Year" award.  He was also featured in the Wall Street Journal on December 2006 about the rise of Chinese investigative journalism.  Liu won the SOPA 2008 Award for the Excellence in Reporting on the Environment from the Society of Publishers in Asia.  He is currently a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley School of Journalism and is also a columnist for the Chinese-English online environmental magazine www.chinadialogue.net.

ABOUT BCR

Registered at University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley China Review (BCR) is a platform dedicated to bridge the knowledge gap of China's social, economic and cultural issues among academy, practitioners, students and the general public through seminars and talks.

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Regards,

 

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Tao Xue

Master of Public Policy Candidate 2009

Goldman School of Public Policy

UC Berkeley

Cell: + 1 510 326 3908

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