Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China (9789004505278)

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.

Product details

• Format Hardback | 272 pages
• Dimensions 155 x 235 x 19.05mm | 610g
• Publication date 06 Jan 2022
• Publisher Brill
• Publication City/Country Leiden, Netherlands
• Language English
• ISBN10 900450527X
• ISBN13 9789004505278

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