中国灌溉与防洪史
2005-9
中国水利水电出版社
中国国家灌溉排水委员会
247
410000
This book is compiled and edited by the China Committee of the International Irrigation and Drainage Commission. Recording the Chinese historical facts of water conservancy from the Xia and Shang Dynasties to 1949, the book exhibits the interconnection between water conservancy and the society and that between water conservancy and science/technology throughout the 5,000-year history and displays experiences and lessons that China has gained in utilization of water resources and remaking of Nature.
Map of Chinese Adminsitrative RegionsMap of Chinese Water SystemsColor illustrationsChapter 1 Introduction 1.1 Water and Nature 1.2 Water conservancy and Society 1.3 Water Resources and Civilization 1.4 Water Worship and Belief in Water GodsChapter 2 From Xia and Shang Dynasties to Han Dynasty-Origin of Irrigation Flood Control and Formation of major Water Conservancy Areas 2.1 Origin of Flood Control and Creation of Dike Works at the Lower-reach Yellow River 2.2 From the Emergence of Farmland Canal Systems to the First Peak of irrigation Works Development 2.3 Hydraulic Science and Technological Innovation 2.4 Invention of irrigation and drainage devices and machinery 2.5 Early discovery of soil mechanics and its application in diking technologiesChapter 3 From the Three Kingdoms to the Tang and the Song Dynasties-The brilliant era of hydraulic science and technology 3.1 Progress in Yellow River flood control and other engineering technologies 3.2 Invention of hydraulic machines for lifted Irrigation and the peak period of hydro-energy application in ancient China 3.3 Water conservancy measures for pol\nds and canals at the lower reach of the Taihu Lake and ploders at the middle reach of the yangtze River 3.4 Creation of projects for resisting seawater and storing freshwater in the southeast coast 3.5 Urban water wupply and flood control works duing the Tang and the Song Dynasties 3.6 Culvert gate control works and their application in irrigation and cannals 3.7 Important period of development in hydrometric survey 3.8 Laws and regulation on flood control and irrigation management 3.9 Management of and taxation on water resourcesChapter 4 The Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties-Universal Development of Irrigation and Flood-control Works 4.1 Flood-control works and technological achievements along the Yellow River and the huaihe River……Chatper 5 From the End of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic-The Reriod that Linked the Previous and Coming Times in Terms of Hydraulic Science and TechnologyConclusion Historical Enlightenment from Traditional Water ConservancyA Brief Chinese ChronologyUnits of Weights and Measures
