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Yan Gao - Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China

Av Yan Gao

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This book centers on the history of polders and investigates the complex hydro-social relationships of the Jianghan Plain in late imperial China. Once a hydraulic frontier where local communities managed the polders, the Jianghan Plain had become a state-led hydro-electric powerhouse by the mid-twentieth century. Through in-depth historical analysis, this book shows how water politics, cultural practice, and ecology interplayed and transformed the landscape and waterscape of the plain from a long-term perspective. By touching on topics such as religious practice, ethnic tensions and local militarization, the author reveals a plain forever caught between land and water, and nature and culture.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2022-01-06
  • Mått: 155 x 235 x 24 mm
  • Vikt: 610 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Serie: China Studies
  • Antal sidor: 272
  • Förlag: Brill
  • ISBN: 9789004505278
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Yan Gao, Ph.D., teaches in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at the University of Memphis. She specializes in social and environmental history of the central Yangzi valley, water history, and Asian environmental humanities.

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"As a historial monograph Yangzi Waters is firmly based on a combination of clearly explained theory and well-picked, original material from local sources. This interesting study should not only be read by China specialists but should also appeal to historians interested in a comparative approach of water management within a global setting."-Leonard Blussé, Leiden University, International Journal of Maritime History, 35(1)

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