Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China

Yangzi Waters: Transforming the Water Regime of the Jianghan Plain in Late Imperial China

Gao, Yan

Brill

01/2022

272

Dura

Inglês

9789004505278

15 a 20 dias

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Acknowledgments??


List of Figures and Tables??


Introduction ?Water, Society and Politics???

?1?Theorizing Water and Politics


?2?Revisiting the Relationship between Water and Society


?3?The Yuan???


?4?What Are Yuan??


?5?A Long-term View of the Yuan???


?6?The Jianghan Plain




1???Water-based Disasters and a Cultured Nature??

?1?The Amphibious Nature of the Jianghan Plain

?1.1?A Flood-prone Environment??


?1.2?Wet-rice Cultivation and Its Significance??


?1.3?Amphibious Living??




?2?Networks, Lineages, and the Creation of Yuan???


?3?Temple-?Yuan? Relations: Seeing a Cultured Nature


?4?Conclusion




2???Disordering Nature ?Wetlands and Empire Reconstruction (1600s-Early 1700s)???

?1?The Early History of the Wetlands in the Jianghan Plain


?2?Crisis and Restoration


?3?Migration and Opening the Plain


?4?Amphibious Living: Fluidity of the Jianghan Lifestyle


?5?Complexities in Administration


?6?The Early Qing State and Its Laissez-faire? Policy in Central China


?7?Hydraulic Communities: Official and People's Yuan???


?8?Enforcement on Collaboration: The Formation of Yuan? Zones


?9?Customs in Common: Various Solutions for Collaborations


?10?Turn Sea to Land: Population Growth and Dike Proliferation


?11?Conclusion




3???The Retreat of the Horse ?The Manchus, Pasturelands, and Water Management on the Jianghan Plain (ca. 1700s-mid-1800s)???

?1?Manchus and Horses


?2?The Jingzhou Garrison


?3?Population Growth and Land Reclamation in the Eighteenth-Century Jianghan Plain


?4?The Debate over Land versus Water


?5?The Dilemma for Statecraft Officials


?6?The Manchus and the Local Ecology of Central China


?7?Efforts to Reinforce Manchu Cultural Identity


?8?The Retreat of Horses in the Jianghan Plain in the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries


?9?Conclusion




4???Militarizing Water ?Forts, Polders, and Landscape in an Era of Crisis (1796-1860s)???

?1?The Rebels and the Jianghan Plain


?2?Jianbi Qingye?: The Qing State's Counterinsurgency Agenda


?3?Fort Building in the Hubei Highlands


?4?Local Militarization and the Lowland Communities


?5?Yuan? and Tuanlian?: Qianjiang County as a Case Study


?6?Disruptions in the Hydraulic System with Local Militarization


?7?The Rural Famine in the Jianghan Plain from the Late 1850s to the 1860s


?8?Conclusion




5???Coping with Environmental Crisis in the Post-Taiping Era??

?1?Post-Taiping Social Distress and Environmental Crisis


?2?Managing the Waters

?2.1?Flood Control: Restoring, Diking, or Diverting??


?2.2?Sedimentation: Ban the Reclamation on Mountains??


?2.3?Sacrificing the South for the North??




?3?The Changing Nature of Conflicts over Water

?3.1?First, Greater Frequency and on a Larger Scale??


?3.2?Second, Diversifying Stakeholders??


?3.3?Third, a "Plebeian Culture" in Popular Action??


?3.4?Case Study: The Conflicts over the Big and Small Zekou Outlets from the 1840s to the 1910s??




?4?Changes in Hydrotopography of the Jianghan Plain


?5?Conclusion




6???Centering the Plain??

?1?The Jinshui Reclamation Project


?2?The Social, Economic, and Hydraulic Conditions of the Plain


?3?Reorganizing the Yuan? System in the Early Republic


?4?The Nationalist Government's Scheme of Unifying Watersheds


?5?A Divided Central Yangzi Watershed


?6?Hydropower: Centering the Yangzi


?7?Conclusion




Conclusion??

?1?An Autonomous Water Regime


?2?An Amphibious Water Regime


?3?The Role of the State


?4?Environmental Changes in the Longue Dur?ee???

?4.1?Hydrogeographic Changes??


?4.2?Loss of Biodiversity??




?5?Hopes and Challenges in the Jianghan Plain




Appendix: Glossary of Chinese Measurement Terms??


Works Cited??


Index??
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Han River; Jianghan Plain; Late Imperial China; Yangzi River; human-environment relationships; water regime; yuan; Dike management