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

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
About the Editors and Contributors
Preface
Foreword: The River Dragon Has Come!
1. The Three Gorges Project: A Symbol of Uncontrolled Development in the Late Twentieth Century
2. A Profile of Dams in China
3. The World’s Most Catastrophic Dam Failures: The August 1975 Collapse of the Banqiao and Shimantan Dams
4. Discussing Population Resettlement with Li Boning
	General Plan for Population Resettlement
	Is Developmental Resettlement Possible?
5. The Environmental Impacts of Resettlement in the Three Gorges Project
6. What Are the Three Gorges Resettlers Thinking?
7. A Survey of Resettlement in Badong County, Hubei Province
8. Resettlement in the Xin’an River Power Station Project
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
10. A Lamentation for the Yellow River: The Three Gate Gorge Dam (Sanmenxia)
11. Water Pollution in the Three Gorges Reservoir
12. Military Perspectives on the Three Gorges Project
Epilogue: The New Golden Triangle of China
Appendix A: Acknowledgments from “General Plan for Population Resettlement”
Appendix B: Sediment Problems at the Three Gorges Dam
Appendix C: The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China’s Southern Heritage
Appendix D: Priority-Level Cultural Antiquities in the Three Gorges Area
Appendix E: Archaeological Sites to Be Inundated in 1997 by the Construction of the Three Gorges Dam
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
Biographic Glossary
Index