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The water kingdom : a secret history of China /
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| Format: | Printed Book |
| Language: | English |
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London :
Vintage,
2017
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: rain on the Summer Palace
- The great rivers
- Yangtze and Yellow: the axes of China's geography
- Out of the water
- The myths and origins of ancient China
- Finding the way
- Water as source and metaphor in Daoism and Confucianism
- Channels of power
- How China's waterways shaped its political landscape
- Voyages of the eunuch admiral
- How China explored the world
- Rise and fall of the hydraulic state
- Taming the waters by bureaucracy
- War on the waters
- Rivers and lakes as sites and instruments of conflict
- Mao's dams
- The technocratic vision of a new China
- The fluid art of expression
- How water infuses Chinese painting and literature
- Water and China's future
- Threats, promises and a new dialogue.