治水之道:明清时期山东西部运河流域水柜功能的若干思考
In late imperial China, the Grand Canal heavily relied on continual construction,reconstruction and maintenance of a comprehensive water conservancy system.For its northern sections, the most serious challenge was lasting shortage of water.In the Jining region of western Shandong, in order to combat the tremendous problems of water shortage, as well as flooding in monsoon seasons, a few massive shuigui (water box)reservoirs, the so-called Five North Lakes and Four South Lakes, were vigorously installed or modified to reserve and moderate water for canal navigation.The core idea of such hydraulic enterprises lay in the longstanding Chinese belief that manpower could manipulate nature, as exemplified in the control and distribution of water resources.Although such technical measure of reconfiguring the regional hydrological network and geospatiai environment generally achieved its anticipated goal of sustaining the Grand Canal in western Shandong, it proved to be an extremely difficult accomplishment due to both the complex interaction between nature and technology and the unbending tension between state penetration and local response, in view of water resources multifunction.Thus, while natural and technological conditions largely accounted for the mechanism of water management, politics, involved by the state for its utmost objective of grain transportation and local people for their allowances, played a striking role in fluctuating water movement.The entwined environmental-human and state-society interactions fundamentally shaped the rhythm and style of everyday life as well as the characteristics of local society.
Jining Shuigui environment state local initiative
孙竞昊
浙江大学江南区域史研究中心
国际会议
北京
中文
382-416
2017-05-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）