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The Yellow River has long been viewed as a symbol of China's cultural and political development, its management traditionally held as a gauge of dynastic power. For centuries, the country's early rulers employed a defensive approach to the river by building dikes and diversion channels to protect fields and population centers from flooding. This situation changed dramatically after the Yuan (1260-1368) emperors constructed the Grand Canal, which linked the North China Plain and the capital at Beijing with the Yangtze Valley. One of the most ambitious imperial undertakings of any age, by the turn of the nineteenth century the water system had become a complex network of locks, spillways, and dikes stretching eight hundred kilometers from the mountains in western Henan to the Yellow Sea. Controlling the Dragon examines Yellow River engineering from two perspectives. The first looks at long-term efforts to manage the river starting in the early Ming dynasty, at the nature of the bureaucracy created to do the job, and finally focuses on two of the Confucian engineers who served successfully in the decade before the system was abandoned. In the second section, the author chronicles a series of dramatic floods in the 1840s and explores the way politics, environment, and technology interacted to undermine the state's commitment to the Yellow River control system.

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A three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape.

Yellow River (China) --- Yellow River Region (China) --- History. --- Physical geography --- Yellow River --- Human ecology

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China --- Yellow River (China) --- Description and travel. --- S03/0410 --- China: Geography, description and travel--Yellow River --- Description and travel --- China - Description and travel --- Yellow River (China) - Description and travel

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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.

Hydraulic engineering --- Engineering, Hydraulic --- Engineering --- Fluid mechanics --- Hydraulics --- Shore protection --- History --- Yellow River (China) --- Hebei Sheng (China) --- 河北省 (China) --- Kahoku-shō (China) --- Ho-pei sheng (China) --- Hopeh Province (China) --- Hopeh (China) --- Hebei Province (China) --- He Bei Province (China) --- Ho-pei (China : Province) --- Ho-pei sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- Hebei (China : Province) --- Zhili Sheng (China) --- Rehe Sheng (China) --- Hoang Ho (China) --- Huang He (China) --- Huang Ho (China) --- Huanghe (China) --- Hwang Ho (China) --- Environmental conditions. --- China --- Social conditions.

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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.

Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 --- Chinese-Japanese War, 1937-1945 --- Japan-China War, 1937-1945 --- Japanese-Chinese War, 1937-1945 --- Second Sino-Japanese War, 1937-1945 --- Sino-Japanese Conflict, 1937-1945 --- Environmental aspects --- Henan Sheng (China) --- Yellow River (China) --- Ho-nan sheng (China) --- Kanan-shō (China) --- Honan Province (China) --- Chung-chou (China : Province) --- Ho-nan sheng cheng fu (China) --- Pʻing-yüan sheng (China) --- Henan Province (China) --- Ho-nan (China) --- Ho-nan sheng jen min cheng fu (China) --- 河南省 (China) --- Hoang Ho (China) --- Huang He (China) --- Huang Ho (China) --- Huanghe (China) --- Hwang Ho (China) --- History, Military --- Environmental conditions. --- Environmental degradation --- Nature --- Refugees. --- History --- Effect of human beings on --- Degradation, Environmental --- Destruction, Environmental --- Deterioration, Environmental --- Environmental destruction --- Environmental deterioration --- Natural disasters --- Environmental quality