Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 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.

Author: Yan Gao
ISBN-10: 900450527X
ISBN-13: 9789004505278
Publisher: Brill
Language: English
Published: 01/06/2022
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.28lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.10w x 0.69d