Tang Xiyang
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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
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
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
After their trek through the forests of
References
- ^ The 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Peace and International Understanding Archived 2012-02-07 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on November 29, 2007)
- ^ Brodsgard, Kjell Eric and Susan Johnson, State Capacity in East Asia, published by Oxford University Press, p. 182
- ^ Political Testament of Zheng Zhaonan, written to Beijing City Committee five days before she died.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "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.
- ^ "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.
- ^ "On the Life and Death of the Martyr Zheng Zhaonan" Middle School Revolution News, No. 4, February 21, 1967[permanent dead link]
- ^ "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]
- ^ "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.
- ^ ""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.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ ""A Green World Tour" Censored Part II". Archived from the original on December 6, 2001. Retrieved 2015-08-11.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ 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.