Chongqing & The Three Gorges - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Chongqing & The Three Gorges write by Kim Hunter Gordon. This book was released on 2012-05-01. Chongqing & The Three Gorges available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Three Gorges of the Yangtze River
Three Gorges of the Yangtze River - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Three Gorges of the Yangtze River write by Raynor Shaw. This book was released on 2007. Three Gorges of the Yangtze River available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Leading readers through this popular travel destination in China, Shaw provides a compelling read.
The River Dragon Has Come!
The River Dragon Has Come! - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The River Dragon Has Come! write by Dai Qing. This book was released on 2016-07-01. The River Dragon Has Come! available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Fixing Landscape
Fixing Landscape - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Fixing Landscape write by Corey Byrnes. This book was released on 2019-01-15. Fixing Landscape available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Three Gorges Project in China
The Three Gorges Project in China - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Three Gorges Project in China write by Judy S. Chang. This book was released on 1995. The Three Gorges Project in China available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
