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dc.contributor.authorCrook, Darren
dc.contributor.authorElvin, Mark
dc.date.accessioned2013-12-17T10:00:11Z
dc.date.available2013-12-17T10:00:11Z
dc.date.issued2013-12
dc.identifier.citationCrook , D & Elvin , M 2013 , ' Bureaucratic control of irrigation and labour in late-imperial China: the uses of administrative cartography in the Miju catchment, Yunnan. Mapping the Miju River ' , Water History , vol. 5 , no. 3 , pp. 287-305 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s12685-013-0091-1
dc.identifier.issn1877-7236
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 697287
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 2d807c35-6adb-4d43-a426-9b704cbb8f6a
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2299/12355
dc.description.abstractThe sequence of twelve woodblock maps presented here from the mid-nineteenth-century gazetteer for the department of Dengchuan in southwest China shows the Miju river and the irrigation system that lay at the heart of its farming economy. The incorporation into the cartography of much of the administrative detail related to the compulsory mobilization of labour for the annual clearance of mud makes it unusual among Chinese maps depicting water control in this period. The clarity with which it shows the recent formation of a long, spit-like delta of deposited sediment protruding into the Erhai, the large mountain lake into which the river empties, also assists the dating and analysis of the environmental crisis that occasioned it. During the late seventeenth century, and much of the eighteenth, the pressure of population caused the opening for cultivation of the unstable mountain soils on the slopes of the catchment just upstream of the section depicted by the maps. The result was a massive increase in the river’s load of sediment. The dykes of its downstream bed rose to a level above the surrounding farmland. The increased need for maintenance led to the restructuring of parts of the system of government, and the lives of the local people, so as to handle the new problems. We have found that the accuracy of the maps was adequate for planning and executing middle-sized water control projects at the technical level of that time.en
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofWater History
dc.subjectNational Library of Australia
dc.subjectYunnan Province, China
dc.subjectDengchuan county gazetteer
dc.subject19th century ideographs
dc.subjecthydraulics
dc.subjectirrigation
dc.subjectregulation
dc.titleBureaucratic control of irrigation and labour in late-imperial China: the uses of administrative cartography in the Miju catchment, Yunnan. : Mapping the Miju Riveren
dc.contributor.institutionDepartment of Human and Environmental Sciences
dc.contributor.institutionSchool of Life and Medical Sciences
dc.contributor.institutionHealth & Human Sciences Research Institute
dc.contributor.institutionGeography, Environment and Agriculture
dc.contributor.institutionWater and Environment
dc.contributor.institutionAgriculture
dc.contributor.institutionAgriculture, Food and Veterinary Sciences
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