Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. GRAPHICS STYLE REFERENCE GUIDE vi
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
5. INTRODUCTION. Seeing the Yellow River as a Whole 1
6. CHAPTER 1. The Natural and Unnatural History of the Yellow River 22
7. CHAPTER 2. Before It Was Yellow: The Great River from Neolithic through Medieval Times 62
8. CHAPTER 3. Loess Is More: The Middle Period Tipping Point, 750–1350 CE 121
9. CHAPTER 4. Levies and Levees: The Engineered River, 1351–1855 179
10. EPILOGUE. The Yellow River in the Anthropocene 239
11. APPENDIX Tracking Yu: Developing a Data System for Yellow River History 247
12. GLOSSARY OF CHINESE CHARACTERS 267
13. NOTES 273
14. BIBLIOGRAPHY 293
15. INDEX 309