Hydropower Nation

Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China

Xiangli Ding (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

296 Seiten

2024
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-009-42656-5 (ISBN)

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China has the largest electricity generation capacity in the world today. Its number of large dams is second to none. Xiangli Ding provides a historical understanding of China's ever-growing energy demands and how they have affected its rivers, wild species, and millions of residents. River management has been an essential state responsibility throughout Chinese history. In the industrial age, with the global proliferation of concrete dam technology, people started to demand more from rivers, particularly when required for electricity production. Yet hydropower projects are always more than a technological engineering enterprise, layered with political, social, and environmental meaning. Through an examination of specific hydroelectric power projects, the activities of engineers, and the experience of local communities and species, Ding offers a fresh perspective on twentieth-century China from environmental and technological perspectives.

Xiangli Ding is Assistant Professor of History at the Rhode Island School of Design.

Introduction: a flow of water and power; Part I. Starting From Scratch: 1. An inexhaustible source of power; 2. Mobilizing rivers; Part II. The Socialist Boost; 3. The making of red hydro technostructure; 4. The Great Leap of small hydro; Part III. A Huge Setback: The Sanmenxia Dam; 5. Silt and hydroelectricity; 6. The human cost; 7. The environmental saga; Epilogue.

Erscheinungsdatum	29.10.2024
Reihe/Serie	Studies in Environment and History
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	159 x 235 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften
	Technik ► Elektrotechnik / Energietechnik
ISBN-10	1-009-42656-7 / 1009426567
ISBN-13	978-1-009-42656-5 / 9781009426565
Zustand	Neuware