Title The river dragon has come! : the Three Gorges dam and the fate of China's Yangtze River and its people / [compiled by] Dai Qing ; edited by John G. Thibodeau and Philip B. Williams ; foreword by Audrey Ronning Topping ; translated by Yi Ming

Published Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, [1998] ©1998

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Description xxix, 240 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm Series An East Gate book East gate book. Contents Appendix F: Letter to Jiang Zemin concerning archaeological sites -- Appendix G: Major cities and sites to be affected by the Three Gorges Dam and Reservoir Epilogue: New Golden Triangle of China / Richard Hayman -- Appendix A: Acknowledgments from "General Plan for Population Resettlement" / Li Boning -- Appendix B: Sediment problems at the Three Gorges Dam / Luna B. Leopold -- Appendix C: Three Gorges Dam and the fate of China's southern heritage / Elizabeth Childs-Johnson and Lawrence R. Sullivan -- Appendix D: Priority-level cultural antiquities in the Three Gorges area -- Appendi x E: Archaeological sites to be unundated in 1997 by the construction of the Three Gorges Dam Survey of resettlement in Badong County, Hubei Province / Ding Qigang and Zheng Jiaqin -- Resettlement in the Xin'an River Power Station project / Mou Mo and Cai Wenmei -- Danger to historical relics and cultural antiquities in and around the Three Gorges area: interviews with the Director of the National History Museum of China, Yu Weichao / Dai Qing -- Lamentation for the Yellow River: the Three Gate Gorge Dam (Sanmenxia) / Shang Wei -- Water pollution in the Three Gorges Reservoir / Jin Hui -- Military perspecitves on the Three Gorges project / Da Bing Three Gorges project: a symbol of uncontrolled development in the late twentieth century / Dai Qing -- Profile of dams in China / Shui Fu -- World's most catastrophic dam failures: the August 1975 collapse of the Banqiao and Shimantan Dams / Yi Si -- Discussing population resettlement with Li Boning / Qi Ren -- General Plan for populaiton resettlement / Li Boning -- Is developmental resettlement possible? / Qi Ren -- Environmental impacts of resettlement in the Three Gorges project / Chen Guojie -- What are the Three Gorges resettlers thinking? / Ding Qigang Notes "An East Gate book"--T.p. verso "Probe International, International Rivers Network." Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Also available as an electronic book via the World Wide Web to institutions affiliated with netLibrary, Inc Translated from the Chinese Subject San Xia shui li shu niu (China) Chinese -- Relocation -- History -- 20th century. Chinese -- Relocation -- 20th century. Dams -- China -- Yangtze Gorges Dams -- China -- Yangtze River Gorges. Reservoirs -- Environmental aspects -- China -- Yangtze River Gorges. SUBJECT San Xia Dam (China) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009004072 Yangtze River Gorges (China) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85148992 Author Qing, Dai. Thibodeau, John, 1968- Williams, Philip B. International Rivers Network. Probe International. LC no. 97023982 ISBN 058500157X (electronic bk.) 0765602059 (alk. paper) 0765602067 (paperback: alk. paper)

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