Engineering the State: The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927û37,9780415933889

Engineering the State: The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927û37

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ISBN13: 9780415933889
ISBN10: 0415933889
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2002-06-28
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

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.

Table of Contents

Notes on Measurements and Currency vii
List of Maps
ix
List of Tables
xi
Acknowledgments xiii
Introduction xv
Part I: The Huai River Valley: Politics, Society, and Environmental Change from Yu the Great to 1927 1(38)
Long Term Environmental Change in the Huai River Valley, 200 B.C.E.-1855
3(20)
Huai River Administrative Structure and ``Dao Huai'' Proposals up to the Nationalist Period, 1500-1927
23(16)
Part II: Reconstruction and Huai River Conservancy during the ``Nanjing Decade,'' 1927-1938 39(80)
Centralizing Institutions and Planning: The Huai River Conservancy Commission, 1928-1931
41(20)
From the Sediment: The 1931 Flood
61(18)
Cross Currents: Centralization and Fragmentation in Huai River Administration, 1931-1935
79(24)
To the Sea: The State and Mobilization of Resources for Huai River Engineering
103(16)
Conclusion 119(6)
Bibliography 125(8)
Index 133

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