Zhou Qing

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Zhou Qing (2018)

Zhou Qing ( Chinese  周 勍 ; born December 2, 1964 in Xi'an , Shaanxi ) is a Chinese journalist , non-fiction author and critic of the regime .

Life

Zhou studied at the Lu Xun Literary Institute and Xi'an Northwest University . In 1989 he participated in the Chinese democracy movement. After the crackdown , he was sentenced to two years in prison. His sentence was extended by eight months because he refused to take any measures to rehabilitate him - according to other sources, he had refused to make a confession - and also attempted to escape.

Zhou was director of the Xi'an Cang Xie Cultural Research Institute in Xi'an. As a traditional researcher and specialist in oral history , he worked as editor-in-chief of Folk Magazin , the weekly Legends & Stories and the Oral Museum magazine . As a visiting scholar, he visited the United States and Russia.

For a long time, Zhou dealt with Chinese food and scandals in the food industry. In 2004 he published his report Min Yihe Shi Wei Tian. Zhongguo Shipin Anquan Xianzhuang Diaocha (民 以 何 食为天. 中国 食品 安全 现状 调查.) In Bangao Wenxue , the country's most important news magazine. For this he was nominated for the Lettre Ulysses Award in 2006 and made it into the final round of the seven finalists of the “World Prize for Reportage Literature”. His book on the subject What Kind of God. A Survey of the Current Safety of China's Food became an international bestseller. The book was banned in China immediately after its publication. In 2007 he received an award for the best political report from the Australian International Scholar Foundation .

In 2009, the Independent Chinese PEN Center awarded Zhou a prize for "freedom of writing". He is a member of this PEN Center and the Chinese Society for the Study of Folk Literature and Art .

Zhou lived and worked in Beijing . In 2008/2009 he lived on a scholarship in the Heinrich-Böll-Haus in Langenbroich. A Writers in Exile grant from the PEN Center Germany took him to Munich from 2009–2012. There he dealt with the situation of migrant workers and the death penalty in his native China. Today he lives in Berlin and also works on documentaries.

Quote

"It was more dangerous than hunting drug traffickers." - Zhou on his work in the food industry.

Works

  • Min Yihe Shi Wei Tian. Zhongguo Shipin Anquan Xianzhuang Diaocha. (民 以 何 食为天. 中国 食品 安全 现状 调查.) In: Bangao Wenxue , 9/2004.
  • What Kind of God. A Survey of the Current Safety of China's Food.
  • What should our people feed on in the future - food scandals.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Zhou Qing. ( Ungehört , p. 8; pdf; accessed on October 15, 2018)
  2. ↑ pen-deutschland.de: Zhou Qing . (accessed on October 15, 2018)
  3. ↑ buchmarkt.de: Nominations for the Lettre Ulysses Award 2006 / World Prize for Reportage Literature / Seven finalists . (September 7, 2006)
  4. ^ Deutsche Welle : Zhou, Qing . (May 3, 2013)
  5. ^ Spiegel Online : Food Horror in China. "Never go to a restaurant" . (December 15, 2007)
  6. ^ Deutsche Welle : Zhou, Qing . (May 3, 2013)
Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Zhou is the family name here, Qing is the first name.
personal data
SURNAME Zhou Qing
ALTERNATIVE NAMES c = 周 勍 (Chinese)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chinese journalist, non-fiction author and critic of the regime
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd December 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Xi'an