Join Dai Qing, Andy Nathan, and our senior fellow Sam George today for this excellent talk at Columbia.
New Yorkers! Prof. Andrew Nathan and I will be hosting a conversation with one of China's most famous investigative journalists and unofficial historians, Dai Qing, at Columbia University on November 5, 12:00-1:30pm.View quoted post on X
Dai Qing is a member of China's red aristocracy. She was raised in the family of one the most important military men of the People's Republic and has deep insight into the Party and the country it governs. Despite her privilege, she became increasingly concerned with the Party's instinct to censor and edit the historical record in politically expedient ways. She went on to write several of the most important volumes on Party history, and also become one of China's most significant environmentalists through her reporting on the Three Gorges Dam.
We will discuss her life, her motivations, and her forthcoming book "Inquiring into History". The conversation will be in Chinese but we will offer simultaneous interpretation. She's a fascinating person -- please come!