| Book Review | Environmental History, 11.3

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Book Review

Engineering the State: The Huai River and Reconstruction in Nationalist China, 1927–1937. By David Pietz. New York and London: Routledge, 2002. xix + 142 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliography, index, notes. $110.

Water control has long been central to Chinese society, and is likely to be even more important in the decades to come. Through a case study of attempts to control one particularly troublesome river, David Pietz provides a useful window on how the Chinese politics of water control was transformed in the first half of the twentieth century. Though the book is aimed primarily at area specialists, people interested in the spread of dam building, basinwide planning, and other basic features of modern hydraulic engineering will find much of interest here.

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