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发帖数: 141625 | 1 时间地点介绍贴在下面。看上去是从抗战时期、蒋介石炸毁河南郑州花园口的黄河大堤
说起，到1941-43年的河南大饥荒。河南作家刘震云的中篇小说《温故一九四二》说的
就是那个事儿，大批河南人背井离乡逃难，还有很多人吃人的事件，惨不忍睹。建国以
后挖井、修渠，有个很出名的红旗渠。但现在黄河水一年比一年干，水渠的水也比以前
少很多。去年去河南，听当地人说因为挖井、修渠大量开发地下水，破坏了生态环境平
衡。这个讲座似乎还是持积极态度的。有关心这方面的朋友可以去听听。
Monday, April 9, 2012 (4:30 PM)
2011-2012 CEAS CHINA COLLOQUIUM SERIES
War, Water, Power: An Environmental History of Henan's Yellow River Flood
Area, 1938-1952
Micah Muscolino – Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University
4:30 PM, Room 203, Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue, New Haven, CT
During the conflict known in China as the Anti-Japanese War of Resistance (
1937-1945), the Chinese Nationalist military blasted the YellowRiver dikes
in Henan province in 1938 to forestall a Japanese advance. Perhaps the
single most environmentally damaging act of war in world history, this
strategic decision threw long-established water control infrastructure
intodisarray, leading to widespread and persistent flooding. The Yellow
River’s floodwaters inundated vast tracts of intensely cultivated land
during the conflict, killing hundreds of thousands of people and displacing
millions. Greater horror came in 1941-1943, when flood damage combined with
inclementclimate conditions, wartime dislocation, and heavy taxes and grain
levies exacted by Chinese and Japanese armies in Henan to bring about a
famine in which two to three million died and three million Henan residents
were forced to take flight. These disasters testify to the vulnerability of
human-shaped environments like north China’s agricultural landscapes and
hydraulicinfrastructure to war-induced disruption. After assessing the
ecological consequences of these war-induced disasters, this presentation
examines howlocal residents and state actors in Henan labored to transform
devastated environments into productive agro-ecosystems during the late-
1940s and early-1950s. In addition to presenting a graphic example of the
immediate impact of military conflict, which has been the focus of most
existing scholarship on the environmental history of warfare, the history of
Henan’s Yellow River flood area illustrates the human capacity to restore
the viability of war-damagedlandscapes after war’s an end.
Micah Muscolino's area of expertise is the environmental history of late
imperial and modern China. He teaches undergraduate courses on Global
Environmental History, Chinese Environmental History, and the Pacific World.
He also teaches a graduate seminar on China in World History. Before coming
to Georgetown he taught for two years at Saint Mary's College of California
, where he offered classes on Chinese History, East Asian History, and World
History. He spent 2010-2011 as a member of the School of Historical Studies
at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, NJ with support from a
Mellon Fellowship for Assistant Professors. He has also been awarded
fellowships and grants from Fulbright (IIE), the Center for Chinese Studies
at the National Central Library in Taiwan, and the Chiang Ching-kuo
Foundation. |
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