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Engineering the State

The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927-1937

By: David Allen Pietz

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Engineering the State

The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927-1937

By: David Allen Pietz

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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0415933889

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The Yellow River

The Problem of Water in Modern China

By: David A. Pietz

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The Yellow River

The Problem of Water in Modern China

By: David A. Pietz

Flowing through the heart of the North China Plain—home to 200 million people—the Yellow River sustains one of China’s core regions. Yet this vital water supply has become highly vulnerable in recent decades, with potentially serious repercussions for China’s economic, social, and political stability. The Yellow River is an investigative expedition to the source of China’s contemporary water crisis, mapping the confluence of forces that have shaped the predicament that the world’s most populous nation now faces in managing its water reserves. Chinese governments have long struggled to maintain ecological stability along the Yellow River, undertaking ambitious programs of canal and dike construction to mitigate the effects of recurrent droughts and floods. But particularly during the Maoist years the North China Plain was radically re-engineered to utilize every drop of water for irrigation and hydroelectric generation. As David A. Pietz shows, Maoist water management from 1949 to 1976 cast a long shadow over the reform period, beginning in 1978. Rapid urban growth, industrial expansion, and agricultural intensification over the past three decades of China’s economic boom have been realized on a water resource base that was acutely compromised, with effects that have been more difficult and costly to overcome with each passing decade. Chronicling this complex legacy, The Yellow River provides important insight into how water challenges will affect China’s course as a twenty-first-century global power.

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Harvard University Press

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0674966929

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Engineering the State

The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927–37

By: David Pietz

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Engineering the State

The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927–37

By: David Pietz

Using case studies of large-scale public works projects in the Huai River valley of central China, this title illustrates the manner in which the Nationalist governmentst sought to re-establish central administrative control which fractured following the fall of the empire.

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1317794567

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Religion

Material Dynamics

By: David Chidester

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Religion

Material Dynamics

By: David Chidester

Religion: Material Dynamics is a lively resource for thinking about religious materiality and the material study of religion. Deconstructing and reconstructing religion as material categories, social formations, and mobile circulations, the book explores the making, ordering, and circulating of religious things. The book is divided into three sections: Part One revitalizes basic categories—animism and sacred, space and time—by situating them in their material production and testing their analytical viability. Part Two examines religious formations as configurations of power that operate in material cultures and cultural economies and are most clearly shown in the power relations of colonialism and imperialism. Part Three explores the material dynamics of circulation through case studies of religious mobility, change, and diffusion as intimate as the body and as vast as the oceans. Each chapter offers insightful orientations and surprising possibilities for studying material religion. Exploring the material dynamics of religion from poetics to politics, David Chidester provides an entry into the study of material religion that will be welcomed by students and specialists in religious studies, anthropology, and history.

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Univ of California Press

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0520969936

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9780520969933

Engineering the State

The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927-1937

By: David Allen Pietz

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The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927-1937

By: David Allen Pietz

First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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