The River Dragon Has Come!: Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People: Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People

by Williams; Michael R

• ISBN13: 9780765602053
• ISBN10: 0765602059
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-04-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Table of Contents

About the Editors and Contributors	vii	(2)
Preface	ix	(6)
John G. Thibodeau
Philip B. Williams
Foreword: The River Dragon Has Come!	xv
Audrey Ronning Topping
1. The Three Gorges Project: A Symbol of Uncontrolled Development in the Late Twentieth Century	3	(15)
Dai Qing
2. A Profile of Dams in China	18	(7)
Shui Fu
3. The World's Most Catastrophic Dam Failures: The August 1975 Collapse of the Banqiao and Shimantan Dams	25	(14)
Yi Si
4. Discussing Population Resettlement with Li Boning	39	(24)
Qi Ren
General Plan for Population Resettlement	40	(10)
Li Boning
Is Developmental Resettlement Possible?	50	(13)
Qi Ren
5. The Environmental Impacts of Resettlement in the Three Gorges Project	63	(7)
Chen Guojie
6. What Are the Three Gorges Resettlers Thinking?	70	(20)
Ding Qigang
7. A Survey of Resettlement in Badong County, Hubei Province	90	(14)
Ding Qigang
Zheng Jiaqin
8. Resettlement in the Xin'an River Power Station Project	104	(20)
Mou Mo
Cai Wenmei
9. The 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	124	(19)
Dai Qing
10. A Lamentation for the Yellow River: The Three Gate Gorge Dam (Sanmenxia)	143	(17)
Shang Wei
11. Water Pollution in the Three Gorges Reservoir	160	(11)
Jin Hui
12. Military Perspectives on the Three Gorges Project	171	(6)
Da Bing
Epilogue: The New Golden Triangle of China	177	(14)
Richard Hayman
Appendix A: Acknowledgments from "General Plan for Population Resettlement"	191	(3)
Li Boning
Appendix B: Sediment Problems at the Three Gorges Dam	194	(6)
Luna B. Leopold
Appendix C: The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Southern Heritage	200	(11)
Elizabeth Childs-Johnson
Lawrence R. Sullivan
Appendix D: Priority-Level Cultural Antiquities in the Three Gorges Area	211	(1)
Appendix E: Archaeological Sites to Be Inundated in 1997 by the Construction of the Three Gorges Dam	212	(2)
Appendix F: Letter to Jiang Zemin Concerning Archaeological Sites	214	(6)
Appendix G: Major Cities and Sites to Be Affected by the Three Gorges Dam and Reservoir	220	(1)
Biographic Glossary	221	(8)
Index	229