The River, the Plain, and the Stateepub,mobi,azw3格式电子书下载，作者：Ling Zhang-读书派

On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its banks, drastically changing its course across the Hebei Plain and turning it into a delta where the river sought a path out to the ocean. This dramatic shift of forces in the natural world resulted from political deliberation and hydraulic engineering of the imperial state of the Northern Song Dynasty. It created 80 years of social suffering, economic downturn, political upheaval, and environmental changes, which reshaped the medieval North China Plain and challenged the state. Ling Zhang deftly applies textual analysis, theoretical provocation, and modern scientific data in her gripping analysis of how these momentous events altered China's physical and political landscapes and how its human communities adapted and survived. In so doing, she opens up an exciting new field of research by wedding environmental, political, economic, and social history in her examination of one of North China's most significant environmental changes.

Ling Zhang is an Assistant Professor of History at Boston College, Massachusetts. She was a Ziff Environmental Fellow at the Center for the Environment at Harvard University, Massachusetts and a postdoctoral fellow in the Program of Agrarian Studies at Yale University, Connecticut. She is currently working on a book project entitled China's Sorrow or the Yellow River's Sorrow: ...

FoundObject

10-06

最后的结论有点过于简单

Doro_

03-19

前几天开会见到了女神，好可爱而且学术素养没得说，周围都是美国人突然来一个英音也是非常清新了。这本书其实比较facts solid，结论也还好，不过是下一本的铺垫。期待下一本书，据女神讲是关于以邻为壑的environmental ethics，从三代一直写下来，估计会是一本巨书哈哈哈哈。

余草

11-02

不做古代史所以无法给出很专业的评价，很难判断一手史料用得巧不巧，史料分析是否到位。不过我觉得这本书很好地补充并挑战了G. William Skinner 施堅雅的physiographic subregions and macro regions 以及Wittfogel的hydraulic despotism。最大心得：羡慕。如果我的arguments也能够写得如此清晰就好了。

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