A Bend in the Yellow River

A Bend in the Yellow River
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Publisher : Phoenix
Total Pages : 240
Release :
ISBN-10 : 1861590172
ISBN-13 : 9781861590176
Rating : 4/5 (72 Downloads)

Synopsis A Bend in the Yellow River by : Justin Hill

This is a sympathetic and intelligent portrait of a once-great civilization in turmoil, embracing the ideals of a market economy, but unable, or unwilling, to jettison the past; and of the Cultural Revolution, which left a large section of the population without an education.

A Bend in the Yellow River

A Bend in the Yellow River
Author :
Publisher : Phoenix (USA)
Total Pages : 260
Release :
ISBN-10 : 0753801140
ISBN-13 : 9780753801147
Rating : 4/5 (40 Downloads)

Synopsis A Bend in the Yellow River by : Justin Hill

Justin Hill was only twenty-one when he arrived starry-eyed in Yuncheng, central China, a small town hidden among the plains of dusty Shanxi province. He was greeted by a place and people designed to shatter the most tightly held of illusions about the glories of Chinese tradition and culture: an ugly grimy town where spitting in public was encouraged and queuing was anathema, where the local TV output consisted of nightly readings of the works of Deng Xiao Ping interspersed with NBA basketball games. But after two years teaching Yuncheng's inhabitants he emerged knowing that nowhere was more authentically Chinese than this outpost nestling in the bend of the Yellow River, battling the contradictions of past and future with robust good humour.

The Yellow River

The Yellow River
Author :
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 382
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780674966925
ISBN-13 : 0674966929
Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis The Yellow River by : David A. Pietz

Flowing through the heart of the North China Plain—home to 200 million people—the Yellow River sustains one of China’s core regions. Yet this vital water supply has become highly vulnerable in recent decades, with potentially serious repercussions for China’s economic, social, and political stability. The Yellow River is an investigative expedition to the source of China’s contemporary water crisis, mapping the confluence of forces that have shaped the predicament that the world’s most populous nation now faces in managing its water reserves. Chinese governments have long struggled to maintain ecological stability along the Yellow River, undertaking ambitious programs of canal and dike construction to mitigate the effects of recurrent droughts and floods. But particularly during the Maoist years the North China Plain was radically re-engineered to utilize every drop of water for irrigation and hydroelectric generation. As David A. Pietz shows, Maoist water management from 1949 to 1976 cast a long shadow over the reform period, beginning in 1978. Rapid urban growth, industrial expansion, and agricultural intensification over the past three decades of China’s economic boom have been realized on a water resource base that was acutely compromised, with effects that have been more difficult and costly to overcome with each passing decade. Chronicling this complex legacy, The Yellow River provides important insight into how water challenges will affect China’s course as a twenty-first-century global power.

The Yellow River

The Yellow River
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 232
Release :
ISBN-10 : OCLC:1011016877
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis The Yellow River by : I. P. Freeley

When the Iron Bird Flies

When the Iron Bird Flies
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 421
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9781503629790
ISBN-13 : 1503629791
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis When the Iron Bird Flies by : Jianglin Li

An untold story that reshapes our understanding of Chinese and Tibetan history From 1956 to 1962, devastating military conflicts took place in China's southwestern and northwestern regions. Official record at the time scarcely made mention of the campaign, and in the years since only lukewarm acknowledgment of the violence has surfaced. When the Iron Bird Flies, by Jianglin Li, breaks this decades long silence to reveal for the first time a comprehensive and explosive picture of the six years that would prove definitive in modern Tibetan and Chinese history. The CCP referred to the campaign as "suppressing the Tibetan rebellion." It would lead to the 14th Dalai Lama's exile in India, as well as the Tibetan diaspora in 1959, though the battles lasted three additional years after these events. Featuring key figures in modern Chinese history, the battles waged in this period covered a vast geographical region. This book offers a portrait of chaos, deception, heroism, and massive loss. Beyond the significant death toll across the Tibetan regions, the war also destroyed most Tibetan monasteries in a concerted effort to eradicate local religion and scholarship. Despite being considered a military success, to this day, the operations in the agricultural regions remain unknown. As large numbers of Tibetans have self-immolated in recent years to protest Chinese occupation, Li shows that the largest number of cases occurred in the sites most heavily affected by this hidden war. She argues persuasively that the events described in this book will shed more light on our current moment, and will help us understand the unrelenting struggle of the Tibetan people for their freedom.

A Bend in the River

A Bend in the River
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Publisher : Vintage Canada
Total Pages : 355
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780735277144
ISBN-13 : 0735277141
Rating : 4/5 (44 Downloads)

Synopsis A Bend in the River by : V. S. Naipaul

In the "brilliant novel" (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man — an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions.

The Yellow River

The Yellow River
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Publisher :
Total Pages :
Release :
ISBN-10 : OCLC:63442855
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (55 Downloads)

Synopsis The Yellow River by : Yin (Cheng-chung.)

The Yellow River

The Yellow River
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Publisher : Yale University Press
Total Pages : 376
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780300238334
ISBN-13 : 0300238339
Rating : 4/5 (34 Downloads)

Synopsis The Yellow River by : Ruth Mostern

A three-thousand-year history of the Yellow River and the legacy of interactions between humans and the natural landscape From Neolithic times to the present day, the Yellow River and its watershed have both shaped and been shaped by human society. Using the Yellow River to illustrate the long-term effects of environmentally significant human activity, Ruth Mostern unravels the long history of the human relationship with water and soil and the consequences, at times disastrous, of ecological transformations that resulted from human decisions. As Mostern follows the Yellow River through three millennia of history, she underlines how governments consistently ignored the dynamic interrelationships of the river's varied ecosystems--grasslands, riparian forests, wetlands, and deserts--and the ecological and cultural impacts of their policies. With an interdisciplinary approach informed by archival research and GIS (geographical information system) records, this groundbreaking volume provides unique insight into patterns, transformations, and devastating ruptures throughout ecological history and offers profound conclusions about the way we continue to affect the natural systems upon which we depend.

The Yellow River

The Yellow River
Author :
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 382
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780674058248
ISBN-13 : 0674058240
Rating : 4/5 (48 Downloads)

Synopsis The Yellow River by : David A. Pietz

Flowing through the heart of the North China Plain—home to 200 million people—the Yellow River sustains one of China’s core regions. Yet this vital water supply has become highly vulnerable in recent decades, with potentially serious repercussions for China’s economic, social, and political stability. The Yellow River is an investigative expedition to the source of China’s contemporary water crisis, mapping the confluence of forces that have shaped the predicament that the world’s most populous nation now faces in managing its water reserves. Chinese governments have long struggled to maintain ecological stability along the Yellow River, undertaking ambitious programs of canal and dike construction to mitigate the effects of recurrent droughts and floods. But particularly during the Maoist years the North China Plain was radically re-engineered to utilize every drop of water for irrigation and hydroelectric generation. As David A. Pietz shows, Maoist water management from 1949 to 1976 cast a long shadow over the reform period, beginning in 1978. Rapid urban growth, industrial expansion, and agricultural intensification over the past three decades of China’s economic boom have been realized on a water resource base that was acutely compromised, with effects that have been more difficult and costly to overcome with each passing decade. Chronicling this complex legacy, The Yellow River provides important insight into how water challenges will affect China’s course as a twenty-first-century global power.