||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Really good environmental history|By E. N. Anderson|David Pietz has provided a superior history of water management in northern China. In spite of the "modern" in the title, he spends over 100 pages on a notably judicious and incisive history of water management from prehistory on down to Qing. He provides some really fascinating lore on water engineering in the 1930s, usual||Written in an accessible style, the book has something to offer to those unfamiliar with China as well as to China specialists...It is easily the most useful and insightful addition to the relatively new field of Chinese environmental history. (<
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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