The river, the plain, and the state : an environmental drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128 / Ling Zhang, Boston College.
"On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its banks, drastically changing its course across the Hebei Plain and turning it into a delta where the river sought a path out to the ocean. This dramatic shift of forces in the natural world resulted from political deliberation and hydraulic engine...
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2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half title; Series; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; 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 TraumaEpilogue 1128: The Close of the Environmental Drama; Bibliography; Index.