Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China's Three Gorges
(Part of the Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University Series)
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0231188064
ISBN13:9780231188067
Release Date:January 2019
Publisher:Columbia University Press
Length:344 Pages
Weight:1.40 lbs.
Dimensions:1.2" x 6.3" x 9.2"
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