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Fixing Landscape : A Techno-Poetic History of China's Three Gorges /

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 i...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Byrnes, Corey (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2019]
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Acknowledgments
  • Orientation
  • PASSAGE I. DEPARTURE
  • Introduction
  • PART I. A Landscape of Traces
  • 1. Tracing the Gorges
  • 2. From Trace to Site
  • PASSAGE II. ONE THOUSAND LI
  • Introduction
  • PART II. Reinscribing the Three Gorges
  • 3. Chinese Landscape
  • 4. Chinese Labor
  • PASSAGE III. ONE THOUSAND YEARS
  • Introduction
  • PART III. For the Record
  • 5. A Record of the Trace
  • 6. Ink in the Wound
  • PASSAGE IV. PART OF THE MOVEMENT
  • Introduction
  • NOTES
  • Bibliography
  • Index