Tang Xiyang

Source: Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Tang Xiyang (唐錫陽; 30 January 1930 – 3 November 2022) was a Chinese environmentalist. He was awarded the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding.[1]

Biography

Tang Xiyang was born in Miluo, Hunan Province on 30 January 1930. He graduated from

refused medical care and died of her injuries. Her refusal to denounce her husband Tang Xiyang as a rightist, and her landlord family background were likely important reasons for the ferocity of the attacks on her.[2] Zheng Zhaonan's posthumously published letter explaining her political position became well known.[3][4][5][6]

Tang died on 3 November 2022, at the age of 92.[7]

Book

In 1980 he founded Great Nature magazine,[8] and later he wrote the book A Green World Tour, which has become important for China's younger environmentalists. Tang met his second wife, Marsha Marks of New York, in 1981 and began a long collaboration which ended with her death in July 1996.[9]

A Green World Tour

Anti-Rightist Movement and the Cultural Revolution with Americans during his visit to the United States:[11]

Tang believed that Chinese shortcomings in the areas of human rights and democracy are among the most important causes not only of human tragedy but also environmental devastation. A Green World Tour does not touch often on political topics, but these portions were heavily censored.

Green Camp

In the first Green Camp in 1996, Tang took a group of college students to ethnic Tibetan areas of

Tibetan Autonomous Region
.

After their trek through the forests of

Deqin, the students had meetings with county officials and then with Yunnan Province officials in Kunming. When they presented their report to government officials, including representatives of the Ministry of Forestry and environmental officials, the students were attacked by the Forestry officials and praised by the environmental officials. The student trip got extensive coverage in Chinese media. Ten press and television journalists accompanied the students. Chinese media reports pointed to the slash-and-burn agriculture of the local people as the cause of the devastation of the Snub-nosed monkey habitat, but did not mention the much more important role of the Deqin County timber company. Although the threat to the Snub-nosed monkeys of Deqin County has passed, the students fear that unrestrained clear-cutting in nearby areas will continue to cause severe environmental damage.[12]
From 1996 he has been organizing "Green Camps", which in turn has led to spin-off camps in many parts of China. The last years he has been a tireless lecturer; in 2005 alone he delivered 130 lectures in 17 cities.

References

  1. ^ The 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on November 29, 2007)
  2. ^ Brodsgard, Kjell Eric and Susan Johnson, State Capacity in East Asia, published by Oxford University Press, p. 182
  3. ^ Political Testament of Zheng Zhaonan, written to Beijing City Committee five days before she died.[permanent dead link]
  4. ^ "Comrade Tang Xiyang's Statement at the Beijing Middle School Meeting to Expose and Criticize the Liu Shaoqi-Deng Xiaoping Capitalist Class Reactionary Line", delivered in January or February 1967, published in the "Internal Reference" No. 2 edited by Beijing Politics and Law Academy Politics and Law Commune Red Flag Fighting Troops". Archived from the original on 2011-10-07. Retrieved 2009-07-05.
  5. ^ "INTERVIEW_IN TOUCH WITH MR. TANG XIYANG, Autumn 2005 interview on the Friends of Nature website". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2009-07-05.
  6. ^ "On the Life and Death of the Martyr Zheng Zhaonan" Middle School Revolution News, No. 4, February 21, 1967[permanent dead link]
  7. ^ "沈孝辉:追忆自然之友的老朋友唐锡阳先生". 163. 6 November 2022. Retrieved 6 November 2022.[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ "INTERVIEW_IN TOUCH WITH MR. TANG XIYANG on the Friends of Nature website". Archived from the original on 2015-09-24. Retrieved 2009-07-05.
  9. ^ ""Saving the Snub-nosed Monkey: Environmental Action in China" a November 1996 report from U.S. Embassy Beijing". Archived from the original on November 6, 2001. Retrieved 2009-07-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  10. ^ "A Green World Tour is Published in English". Archived from the original on October 7, 2001. Retrieved 2009-07-02.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  11. ^ ""A Green World Tour" Censored Part II". Archived from the original on December 6, 2001. Retrieved 2015-08-11.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  12. ^ Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from "Saving the Snub-nosed monkey: Environmental Action in China" a November 1996 report from U.S. Embassy Beijing. Embassy of the United States, Beijing. Archived from the original on November 6, 2001. Retrieved 2009-07-02.

External links