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Water Lords
Beijing’s Drinking Water and Its Carriers, 1644–1937
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Lei Zhang
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht/Copyright:
2025
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Water Lords presents the untold story of drinking water and its carriers in Beijing from the imperial Qing to the Republican period. It adds an ecological perspective to existing studies by foregrounding water as a distinctive force that shaped urban life in the realms of technology, society, and politics.
With this book, Lei Zhang makes a new and meaningful contribution to the field of Chinese environmental history by attending to water as a daily necessity and examining the previously neglected arrangements that provided urban denizens with predictable access to this critical resource.
With this book, Lei Zhang makes a new and meaningful contribution to the field of Chinese environmental history by attending to water as a daily necessity and examining the previously neglected arrangements that provided urban denizens with predictable access to this critical resource.
Information zu Autoren / Herausgebern
Lei Zhang, Ph.D. (2017), Syracuse University, is an associate professor of history at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. His research interests focus on urban history, environmental history, and historical geography in modern China.
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eBook veröffentlicht am:
24. Februar 2025
eBook ISBN:
9789004720800
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Inhalt:
188
eBook ISBN:
9789004720800
Schlagwörter für dieses Buch
drinking water; environmental history; urban history; infrastructure; history of technology; Beijing; Modern China; Boxer Rebellion; waterworks; hygienic water; Beijing water; hydraulic history; despotic government; hydraulic projects; Capital Waterworks; warlords; public health; ecological history
Zielgruppe(n) für dieses Buch
Scholars of modern Chinese history, urban history, and history of technology, and it could be assigned for upper-level undergraduate or graduate-level seminars.
