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Subtitle: A Secret History of China, Univ. of Chicago Press, Chicago,
2016, 341 pgs., index, notes, bibliography, illustrations
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Reviewer Comment:
A very unique historical study of China from ancient eras to the present
focused on how the control of water, in particular the great rivers, Yangtze
and Yellow, have shaped its history, culture, economics, and politics. Just as
the Nile created Egypt, the two rivers created Mesopotamia and the
Mediterranian Sea created the Roman Empire, so the rivers created China. The
book contains the historial information that is needed when assessing the views
of modern China by such authors as Michael Pilsbury, Peter Zeihan and
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Introduction
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Chapter 1 - The Great Rivers: Yangtze and Yellow - The axes of China's
Geography
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Chapter 2 - Out of Water: The Myths and origins of Ancient China
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Chapter 3 - Finding the Way: Water as Source and Metaphor in Daoism and
Confucianism
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Chapter 4 - Channels of Power: How China's Waterways Shaped its
Political Landscape
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Chapter 5 - Voyages of Eunuch Admiral: How China Explored the World
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Chapter 6 - Rise and Fall of the Hydraulic State
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Chapter 7 - War on the Waters: Rivers and Lakes as Sites and
Instruments of Conflict
In this chapter the author describes the famous Battle of the Red Cliffs that
sealed the fate of the Han Dynasty and opened the era of the Warring states -
the Three Kingdoms Period
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Chapter 8 - Mao's Dams: The Technocratic Vision of a New China
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Chapter 9 - The Fluid Art of Expression: How Water Influses Chinese
Painting and Literature
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Chapter 10 - Water and China's Future: Threats, promises and a new
Dialogue
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Karl Witfogel - Oriental Despotism
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Peter Zeihan - The Accidental Super power
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Peter Zeihan - the Absent Super power
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Martin Katsa - The Colder War
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Kwasi Kwarteng - War and Gold
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Michael Pillsbury - The Hundred Year Marathon
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