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

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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