River, the Plain, and the State - An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128

This book explores the human-engineered flooding of China's Yellow River, and how it affected the state, environment, and inhabitants of the region.

List of contents

Prologue. 1048: the opening of an environmental drama; Part I. Pre-1048: Prelude to the Environmental Drama: 1. Before the Yellow River met the Hebei Plain; 2. The state's Hebei project; 3. The 1040s: on the eve of the flood; 4. Creating a delta landscape; Part II. Post-1048: The Unfolding of the Environmental Drama: 5. Managing the Yellow River-Hebei environmental complex; 6. Life in the Yellow River Delta; 7. Agriculture: a subsistence-oriented economy; 8. Land and water: a thousand years of environmental trauma; Epilogue. 1128: the close of the environmental drama; Index.

About the author

Ling Zhang is an Assistant Professor of History at Boston College, Massachusetts. She was a Ziff Environmental Fellow at the Center for the Environment at Harvard University, Massachusetts and a postdoctoral fellow in the Program of Agrarian Studies at Yale University, Connecticut. She is currently working on a book project entitled China's Sorrow or the Yellow River's Sorrow: Environmental Biographies of a River Community.

Summary

The first history of the human-engineered flooding of China's Yellow River, and how the creation of the delta affected the state, the environment, and the inhabitants of the region.

Product details

• Authors: Ling Zhang, Ling (Boston College Zhang, Zhang Ling
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2016
• EAN: 9781107155985
• ISBN: 978-1-107-15598-5
• No. of pages: 328
• Series: Studies in Environment and History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas; China, NATURE / Natural Resources, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Asian, HISTORY / Asia / China, Political science & theory, Medieval History, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Environmental Management, Asian History, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Political science and theory