- List of Figures, Maps, and Tables*
- Introduction
- 1. On the Ecological Margins
- 2. Management and Mismanagement in the Imperial Period
- 3. Transforming the Land of Famine
- 4. Making the Water Run Clear
- 5. Creating a Garden on the North China Plain
- 6. Managing Legacies, Managing Growth
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
- * Figures, Maps, and Tables
- Figures
- “Hanging” Yellow River bed
- “Historical” Yü the Great
- Contemporary Yü the Great
- Engraving of the 1887 flood
- The Obernach Yellow River Model
- Four Yellow River channel configurations at Obernach
- Map of the 1933 flood
- Map of the 1935 and 1938 Huayuankou floods
- The Huayuankou breach
- Ambassador with a bulldozer: Harry Morrison
- Model workers from the Huai River Engineering Project
- Women’s Yellow River Dike Construction Brigade
- Mao at the Yellow River, 1952
- “Today’s USSR Is Our Tomorrow”
- The 1955 Great Plan to transform the Yellow River
- “Make the Mountains Bow and the Rivers Yield”
- Mao at the 1955 Yellow River Plan Exhibition
- Happiness Canal
- Mao digging at Ming Tombs Reservoir
- Idealized commune
- Joint Sanmenxia planning meeting in the USSR
- Mao swimming in the Yangtze River, 1966
- Sanmenxia Dam, 1961
- “Spring Rains”
- “Transform China in the Spirit of the Foolish Old Man”
- Maps
- North China Plain
- Yellow River Valley
- Regional virtual water transfers
- Historical course changes of the Yellow River
- China’s hydrologic divide
- Canals linking Yellow and Huai River systems by 1000
- Yellow River drainage into the Huai River, ca. 1400
- Yellow River drainage after 1855 dike break
- People’s Victory Canal
- South-to-North Water Diversion project
- “Water Tower of Asia”
- Tables
- 5.1 Increase in mechanized irrigation in China
- 6.1 Yellow River dry-ups
- Figures
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