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Author : Kim Hunter Gordon
Publisher : Kim Hunter Gordon
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 45,60 MB
Release : 2012-05-01
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ISBN : 7502252150
Author : Raynor Shaw
Publisher : Odyssey Publications
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 36,8 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
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Leading readers through this popular travel destination in China, Shaw provides a compelling read.
Author : Dai Qing
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 48,73 MB
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1315502763
In the ongoing courageous struggle of a relatively small group of Chinese to prevent the completion of the Three Gorges Dam in China, Dai Qing is the outspoken leader whose eloquent voice is always heard despite threats and intimidation by the Chinese authorities to silence it. Dai Qing, an investigative journalist and author with a wide audience in China and abroad, compiled this book of essays and field reports assessing the impact of the Three Gorges megadam now under construction at Sandouping in China's Hubei province at great risk to her own freedom. This book is an effort to prevent history from repeating itself ten-fold (a reference to the great floods in 1975 during which over 60 dams collapsed and at least 100,000 people lost their lives) if the 39 billion cubic metres of water in the Three Gorges reservoir ever escapes by natural or man-made catastrophes. These comprehensive essays reveal the deep rooted problems presented by the Three Gorges project that the government is attempting to disguise or suppress. The main concerns are population resettlement and human rights, the irreversible environmental and economic impact, the loss of cultural antiquities and historical sites, military considerations, and hidden dam disasters from the past. Opponents of the dam are attempting to kill the project or at least reduce the size of the megadam now planned to be the biggest, most expensive and, incidentally, the most hazardous of all hydro-electric projects on this planet.
Author : Corey Byrnes
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 40,29 MB
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231547129
In 1994, workers broke ground on China’s Three Gorges Dam. By its completion in 2012, the dam had transformed the ecology of the Yangzi River, displaced over a million people, and forever altered a landscape immortalized in centuries of literature and art. The controversial history of the dam is well known; what this book uncovers are its unexpected connections to the cultural traditions it seems to sever. By reconsidering the dam in relation to the aesthetic history of the Three Gorges region over more than two millennia, Fixing Landscape offers radically new ways of thinking about cultural and spatial production in contemporary China. Corey Byrnes argues that this monumental feat of engineering can only be understood by confronting its status as a techno-poetic act, a form of landscaping indebted to both the technical knowledge of engineers and to the poetic legacies of the Gorges as cultural site. Synthesizing methods drawn from premodern, modern, and contemporary Chinese studies, as well as from critical geography, art history, and the environmental humanities, Byrnes offers innovative readings of eighth-century poetry, paintings from the twelfth through twenty-first centuries, contemporary film, nineteenth-century British travelogues, and Chinese and Western maps, among other sources. Fixing Landscape shows that premodern poetry and visual art have something urgent to tell us about a contemporary experiment in spatial production. Poems and paintings may not build dams, but Byrnes argues that the Three Gorges Dam would not exist as we know it without them.
Author : Judy S. Chang
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Page : 148 pages
File Size : 28,81 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : Peter Hessler
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 382 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 2010-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0062028987
A New York Times Notable Book Winner of the Kiriyama Book Prize In the heart of China's Sichuan province, amid the terraced hills of the Yangtze River valley, lies the remote town of Fuling. Like many other small cities in this ever-evolving country, Fuling is heading down a new path of change and growth, which came into remarkably sharp focus when Peter Hessler arrived as a Peace Corps volunteer, marking the first time in more than half a century that the city had an American resident. Hessler taught English and American literature at the local college, but it was his students who taught him about the complex processes of understanding that take place when one is immersed in a radically different society. Poignant, thoughtful, funny, and enormously compelling, River Town is an unforgettable portrait of a city that is seeking to understand both what it was and what it someday will be.
Author : Gørild Heggelund
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 19,95 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1351939777
The Three Gorges dam, currently being constructed on the Yantgze River in China, is controversial both inside and outside China due to the population in the area and the environmental impacts. Using material previously unavailable in any Western language, it analyses the Chinese discussion and policy-making for the resettlement process. It also discusses the development aspects of resettling such a large population (officially 1.2 million), as well as assessing the actual and potential impact of resettlement on this population.
Author : Ying Hong
Publisher : Marion Boyars Publishers
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 10,93 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
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A novel of political and sexual tensions set against the backdrop of the hugely controversial Three Gorges Dam Project on the Yangtze River. Peacock Cries provides a rare and fascinating insight into life in contemporary China, told through the eyes of Liu, whose marriage to the director of the Dam Project is breaking down. Book jacket.
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Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 1993-05-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1550210831
The book is the product of a private Canadian expedition to China in 1992. Its members sought to gauge the potential cultural destruction of the daunting and controversial Three Gorges Dam project, which was actively supported by the Canadian government and by corporate sectors.What cultural losses will accompany the expected economic and political gains? What will China, Canada, and the world community lose? How might we, as Canadians, view the purpose and impact of the project, which is now well under way? Using a government-sponsored assessment of the cultural artifacts destined to be submerged by rising waters behind the dam project, our guides - a publisher (Caroline Walker), a heritage consultant (Robert Shipley), a travel writer (Ruth Lor Malloy), and a scholar (Fu Kailin) - lead us on a sometimes comical and frequently troubling tour of the Yangzi gorges region.
Author : Ben Thomson Cowles
Publisher : Daniel & Daniel Publishers
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 44,49 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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As a young man, Cowles was spellbound by tales of danger and daring from those who had ventured into the famed "Dragon's Mouth." In 1946, just prior to the Communist takeover, Cowles, along with a Chinese professor and an Army pilot-engineer, set out to experience the gorges firsthand. For 19 days they immersed themselves in the life of the river, along side 65 crewmen aboard a 95-foot junk.