Engineering the State: The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927-37

In: East Asia: History, Politics, Sociology and Culture Ser

Abstract

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Notes on Measurements and Currency -- List of Maps -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: The Huai River Valley: Politics, Society, and Environmental Change from Yü the Great to 1927 -- Chapter 1 Long Term Environmental Change in the Huai River Valley, 200 b.c.e.-1855 -- Chapter 2 Huai River Administrative Structure and "Dao Huai" Proposals up to the Nationalist Period, 1500-1927 -- Part II: Reconstruction and Huai River Conservancy during the "Nanjing Decade," 1927-1938 -- Chapter 3 Centralizing Institutions and Planning: The Huai River Conservancy Commission, 1928-1931 -- Chapter 4 From the Sediment: The 1931 Flood -- Chapter 5 Cross Currents: Centralization and Fragmentation in Huai River Administration, 1931-1935 -- Chapter 6 To the Sea: The State and Mobilization of Resources for Huai River Engineering -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index