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TheRiver,thePlain,andtheState On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its banks, drastically changing its course across the Hebei Plain and turning it into a delta where the river sought a path out to the ocean. This dramatic shift of forces in the natural world resulted from political delibera- tion and hydraulic engineering of the imperial state of the Northern SongDynasty.Itcreated80yearsofsocialsuffering,economicdown- turn, political upheaval, and environmental changes, which reshaped medievalNorthChinaPlainandchallengedthestate.LingZhangdeftly appliestextualanalysis,theoreticalprovocation,andmodernscientific data in her gripping analysis of how these momentous events altered China’s physical and political landscapes and how its human com- munities adapted and survived. In so doing, she opens up an exciting new field of research by wedding environmental, political, economic, and social history in her examination of one of North China’s most significantenvironmentalchanges. LingZhangisAssistantProfessorofHistoryatBostonCollege. StudiesinEnvironmentandHistory Editors J.R.McNeillGeorgetownUniversity EdmundP.RussellUniversityofKansas EditorsEmeritus AlfredW.CrosbyUniversityofTexasatAustin DonaldWorsterUniversityofKansas OtherBooksintheSeries AndyBruno TheNatureofSovietPower:AnArcticEnvironmentalHistory ErikLoomis EmpireofTimber:LaborUnionsandthePacificNorthwestForests DavidA.Bello AcrossForest,Steppe,andMountain:Environment,Identity,and EmpireinQingChina’sBorderlands PeterThorsheim WasteintoWeapons:RecyclinginBritainDuringtheSecond WorldWar KiekoMatteson ForestsinRevolutionaryFrance:Conservation,Community,and Conflict,1669–1848 GeorgeColpitts PemmicanEmpire:Food,Trade,andtheLastBisonHuntsinthe NorthAmericanPlains,1780–1882 MicahMuscolino TheEcologyofWarinChina:HenanProvince,theYellow River,andBeyond,1938–1950 JohnBrooke ClimateChangeandtheCourseofGlobalHistory:ARoughJourney EmmanuelKreike EnvironmentalInfrastructureinAfricanHistory:Examiningthe MythofNaturalResourceManagement PaulJosephson,NicolaiDronin,RubenMnatsakanian,AlehCherp,Dmitry Efremenko,andVladislavLarin AnEnvironmentalHistoryofRussia GregoryT.Cushman GuanoandtheOpeningofthePacificWorld:AGlobal EcologicalHistory SamWhite ClimateofRebellionintheEarlyModernOttomanEmpire AlanMikhail NatureandEmpireinOttomanEgypt:AnEnvironmentalHistory EdmundRussell EvolutionaryHistory:UnitingHistoryandBiologytoUnderstand LifeonEarth RichardW.Judd TheUntilledGarden:NaturalHistoryandtheSpiritof ConservationinAmerica,1740–1840 JamesL.A.Webb,Jr. Humanity’sBurden:AGlobalHistoryofMalaria FrankUekoetter TheGreenandtheBrown:AHistoryofConservationinNazi Germany MyrnaI.Santiago TheEcologyofOil:Environment,Labor,andtheMexican Revolution,1900–1938 MatthewD.Evenden FishversusPower:AnEnvironmentalHistoryoftheFraser River NancyJ.Jacobs Environment,Power,andInjustice:ASouthAfricanHistory AdamRome TheBulldozerintheCountryside:SuburbanSprawlandtheRiseof AmericanEnvironmentalism JudithShapiro Mao’sWarAgainstNature:PoliticsandtheEnvironmentin RevolutionaryChina EdmundRussell WarandNature:FightingHumansandInsectswithChemicals fromWorldWarItoSilentSpring AndrewIsenberg TheDestructionoftheBison:AnEnvironmentalHistory ThomasDunlap NatureandtheEnglishDiaspora RobertB.Marks Tigers,Rice,Silk,andSilt:EnvironmentandEconomyinLate ImperialSouthChina MarkElvinandTsui’jungLiu SedimentsofTime:EnvironmentandSocietyin ChineseHistory RichardH.Grove GreenImperialism:ColonialExpansion,TropicalIslandEdens andtheOriginsofEnvironmentalism,1600–1860 ElinorG.K.Melville APlagueofSheep:EnvironmentalConsequencesofthe ConquestofMexico J.R.McNeill TheMountainsoftheMediterraneanWorld:AnEnvironmental History TheodoreSteinberg NatureIncorporated:IndustrializationandtheWatersof NewEngland TimothySilver ANewFaceontheCountryside:Indians,Colonists,andSlavesin theSouthAtlanticForests,1500–1800 MichaelWilliams AmericansandTheirForests:AHistoricalGeography DonaldWorster TheEndsoftheEarth:PerspectivesonModernEnvironmental History SamuelP.Hays Beauty,Health,andPermanence:EnvironmentalPoliticsinthe UnitedStates,1955–1985 WarrenDean BrazilandtheStruggleforRubber:AStudyinEnvironmental History RobertHarms GamesAgainstNature:AnEco-CulturalHistoryoftheNunuof EquatorialAfrica ArthurF.McEvoy TheFisherman’sProblem:EcologyandLawintheCalifornia Fisheries,1850–1980 AlfredW.Crosby EcologicalImperialism:TheBiologicalExpansionofEurope, 900–1900,SecondEdition KennethF.Kiple TheCaribbeanSlave:ABiologicalHistory DonaldWorster Nature’sEconomy:AHistoryofEcologicalIdeas,SecondEdition The River, the Plain, and the State An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–1128 LING ZHANG BostonCollege UniversityPrintingHouse,Cambridgecb28bs,UnitedKingdom CambridgeUniversityPressispartoftheUniversityofCambridge. ItfurtherstheUniversity’smissionbydisseminatingknowledgeinthepursuitof education,learningandresearchatthehighestinternationallevelsofexcellence. www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9781107155985 (cid:2)C LingZhang2016 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithoutthewritten permissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2016 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabySheridanBooks,Inc. AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary isbn978-1-107-15598-5Hardback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityforthepersistenceoraccuracy ofURLsforexternalorthird-partyinternetwebsitesreferredtointhispublication, anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuchwebsitesis,orwillremain, accurateorappropriate. For my parents, Qiqi, and David Contents ListofIllustrations pagexi ListofTables xiii Acknowledgments xv ListofAbbreviations xix Prologue1048:TheOpeningofanEnvironmentalDrama 1 part i pre-1048: prelude to the environmental drama 1 BeforetheYellowRiverMettheHebeiPlain 23 2 TheState’sHebeiProject 53 3 The1040s:OntheEveoftheFlood 83 4 CreatingaDeltaLandscape 107 part ii post-1048: the unfolding of the environmental drama 5 ManagingtheYellowRiver–HebeiEnvironmentalComplex 141 6 LifeintheYellowRiverDelta 188 7 Agriculture:ASubsistence-OrientedEconomy 216 8 LandandWater:AThousandYearsofEnvironmental Trauma 248 Epilogue1128:TheCloseoftheEnvironmentalDrama 280 Bibliography 291 Index 309 ix

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