The Yangzi River And The Three Gorges
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The Yangzi River And The Three Gorges
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Author : Judy Bonavia
language : en
Publisher: Odyssey Publications
Release Date : 2004
The Yangzi River And The Three Gorges written by Judy Bonavia and has been published by Odyssey Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Travel categories.
From the wild windswept snowfields of its source in Tibet, to the rich farmlands of its delta on the East China Sea, the mighty Yangzi has always had symbolic and practical significance for the Chinese people. They refer to it simply as Changjiang, or Long River. Stretching for nearly 4,000 miles, the Yangzi is China's main artery, supporting a third of its people; it also serves as the country's primary commercial waterway. This detailed guide to the river and its scenery and environs includes practical information about sights and accommodation. Illustrated by exceptional color photography and informative maps and plans, it is an essential companion for anyone with an interest in China. There is also a selection of literary excerpts, from authors such as Paul Theroux and Han Suyin, to enrich the reader's understanding of China's Long River.
The Yangzi River And The Three Gorges
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language : en
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Release Date : 2004
The Yangzi River And The Three Gorges written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Yangtze River (China) categories.
Yangzi River
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Author : Judy Bonavia
language : en
Publisher: Odyssey Publications
Release Date : 2001-10
Yangzi River written by Judy Bonavia and has been published by Odyssey Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-10 with China categories.
From the snowfields of Tibet to the deltas of the Yellow Sea, the mighty Yangzi has enormous significance for China. As the main commercial waterway it is also a scenic boating route. This guide details its environs with maps, history and illustrations.
Three Gorges Of The Yangtze River
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Author : Raynor Shaw
language : en
Publisher: Odyssey Publications
Release Date : 2007
Three Gorges Of The Yangtze River written by Raynor Shaw and has been published by Odyssey Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with History categories.
Leading readers through this popular travel destination in China, Shaw provides a compelling read.
Yangtze Remembered
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Author : Linda Butler
language : en
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2004
Yangtze Remembered written by Linda Butler and has been published by Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Photography categories.
A stunning compendium of photographs and travel commentary from eight trips to China's Yangtze River captures the people, environment, and landscape of the Yangtze before, during, and after the Three Gorges Dam opened in June 2003.
Yangtze
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Author : Lyman P. Van Slyke
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
Yangtze written by Lyman P. Van Slyke and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Yangtze River (China) categories.
The Yangtze River And The Three Gorges Of China
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language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
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The Yangzi River
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Author : Judy Bonavia
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1997
The Yangzi River written by Judy Bonavia and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Travel categories.
Guide to the 4,000 mile long Yangzi River, which begins in Tibet.
The River Dragon Has Come
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Author : Dai Qing
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-07-01
The River Dragon Has Come written by Dai Qing and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-07-01 with History categories.
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
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Author : Corey Byrnes
language : en
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Release Date : 2019-01-15
Fixing Landscape written by Corey Byrnes and has been published by Columbia University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-01-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.