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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

In the Maoist years the North China Plain was re-engineered to use every drop of water for irrigation and hydroelectricity. As David Pietz shows, China's urban growth, industrial expansion, and agricultural intensification rested on compromised water resources, with effects that cast a long shadow over China's future course as a global power.

Intro -- Contents -- List of Images -- Introduction -- Further Reading -- 1: Water, Civilization, and Culture -- Introduction -- Reading 1: Water and Early Cultures -- Reading 2: Rivers and National Identity -- Reading 3: Water, Culture, and Memory -- Reading 4: Cultural Myths of Water -- Further Reading -- 2: Water and Landscapes -- Introduction -- Reading 1 -- Reading 2 -- Reading 3 -- Reading 4 -- Further Reading -- 3: Water and Production -- Introduction -- Reading 1 -- Reading 2 -- Reading 3 -- Reading 4 -- Reading 5 -- Further Reading -- 4: Water and Health -- Introduction -- Reading 1 -- Reading 2 -- Reading 3 -- Reading 4 -- Further Reading -- 5: Water and Equity -- Introduction -- Reading 1 -- Reading 2 -- Reading 3 -- Reading 4 -- Further Reading -- 6: Water and Governance -- Chapter Introduction -- Reading 1 -- Reading 2 -- Reading 3 -- Reading 4 -- Further Reading -- 7: Water and Security -- Reading 1 -- Reading 2 -- Reading 3 -- Reading 4 -- Further Reading -- 8: Water and Globalization -- Introduction -- Reading 1 -- Reading 2 -- Reading 3 -- Reading 4 -- Further Reading -- 9: Water and Sustainability -- Introduction -- Reading 1 -- Reading 2 -- Reading 3 -- Reading 4 -- Further Reading.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- PART I Landscape organization -- 1 Borders and mosaics, east and west: landscape organization in environmental history -- Commentary -- Commentary -- Commentary -- PART II Managing the rivers -- 2 Writing the 20th-century history of water on the North China Plain -- 3 Land use change in a mountainous area during the past 300 years from the perspective of the spatial evolution of settlements: the case of the Zhangjiu River Basin in Yunnan Province, China -- 4 Taming the blind snake: flooding disasters and river regulation of the Zengwen River in colonial Taiwan -- PART III Land use and food production -- 5 Transformation through inundation: riziculturing Muslim identity in Qing Dynasty Khotan -- 6 The role of plant factories on food production and technology in Japan -- PART IV Development of eco-cities -- 7 Eco-city development in Japan -- 8 Ecological construction in coastal Southeast China -- 9 Building the sustainable city of Yilan: the development of environmental governance learning capacity -- PART V Folk belief and environment -- 10 Nature worship and the environment in Song China -- 11 The mountain spirits and lake monsters of Xinjiang Province during the Qing Dynasty -- Index