Narrow your search

Library

KU Leuven (3)

UGent (3)

ULiège (2)


Resource type

book (3)


Language

English (3)


Year
From To Submit

2016 (1)

2015 (1)

2001 (1)

Listing 1 - 3 of 3
Sort by
Controlling the dragon : Confucian engineers and the Yellow River in late imperial China
Author:
ISBN: 0824823664 0824821912 Year: 2001 Publisher: Honolulu University of Hawaii press


Book
The river, the plain, and the state : an environmental drama in Northern Song China, 1048-1128
Author:
ISBN: 1316722813 1316724018 1316609693 1316659291 131672641X 1316724611 1107155983 1316725812 1316719219 1316723410 Year: 2016 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

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 engineering of the imperial state of the Northern Song Dynasty. It created 80 years of social suffering, economic downturn, political upheaval, and environmental changes, which reshaped the medieval North China Plain and challenged the state. Ling Zhang deftly applies textual analysis, theoretical provocation, and modern scientific data in her gripping analysis of how these momentous events altered China's physical and political landscapes and how its human communities adapted and survived. In so doing, she opens up an exciting new field of research by wedding environmental, political, economic, and social history in her examination of one of North China's most significant environmental changes.


Book
The ecology of war in China : Henan Province, the Yellow River, and beyond, 1938-1950
Author:
ISBN: 1316191478 1316211827 1316189635 1316209962 1316206262 1107417597 1316208117 1316204472 1316202615 1107785278 1107071569 1322560870 Year: 2015 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

Loading...
Export citation

Choose an application

Bookmark

Abstract

This book explores the interplay between war and environment in Henan Province, a hotly contested frontline territory that endured massive environmental destruction and human disruption during the conflict between China and Japan during World War II. In a desperate attempt to block Japan's military advance, Chinese Nationalist armies under Chiang Kai-shek broke the Yellow River's dikes in Henan in June 1938, resulting in devastating floods that persisted until after the war's end. Greater catastrophe struck Henan in 1942-3, when famine took some two million lives and displaced millions more. Focusing on these war-induced disasters and their aftermath, this book conceptualizes the ecology of war in terms of energy flows through and between militaries, societies, and environments. Ultimately, Micah Muscolino argues that efforts to procure and exploit nature's energy in various forms shaped the choices of generals, the fates of communities, and the trajectory of environmental change in North China.

Listing 1 - 3 of 3
Sort by