ABSTRACT
Using case studies of large-scale public works projects in the Huai River valley of central China, this title illustrates the manner in which the Nationalist governmentst sought to re-establish central administrative control which fractured following the fall of the empire.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|38 pages
The Huai River Valley: Politics, Society, and Environmental Change from Yü the Great to 1927
part II|80 pages
Reconstruction and Huai River Conservancy during the “Nanjing Decade,” 1927–1938
