Title The Yellow River : the problem of water in modern China / David A. Pietz.

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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2015]

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Description	1 online resource (x, 367 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	Introduction -- On the ecological margins -- Management and mismanagement in the imperial period -- Transforming the land of famine -- Making the water run clear -- Creating a garden on the North China Plain -- Managing legacies, managing growth.
Note	Print version record.
Summary	In the Maoist years the North China Plain was re-engineered to use every drop of water for irrigation and hydroelectricity. As David Pietz shows, China's urban growth, industrial expansion, and agricultural intensification rested on compromised water resources, with effects that cast a long shadow over China's future course as a global power.
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Language	In English.
Subject	Yellow River (China)
	North China Plain (China)
	Water -- Pollution -- China.
	Water -- Purification -- China.
	Economic development -- Environmental aspects -- China.
	BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
	HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
	Economic development -- Environmental aspects. (OCoLC)fst00901808
	Water -- Pollution. (OCoLC)fst01171279
	Water -- Purification. (OCoLC)fst01171363
	China. (OCoLC)fst01206073
	China -- North China Plain. (OCoLC)fst01248412
	China -- Yellow River. (OCoLC)fst01243831
Other Form:	Print version: Pietz, David Allen. Yellow River. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2015 (DLC) 2014008684 (OCoLC)875999602
ISBN	0674736109 (electronic book)
	9780674736108 (electronic book)
Standard No.	10.4159/harvard.9780674736108 doi

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