Ball, P: Water Kingdom
A Secret History of China
(Sprache: Englisch)
A secret history of China - a fresh new way of thinking about a people, a civilisation, an epic story.
The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to grasp the...
The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to grasp the...
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A secret history of China - a fresh new way of thinking about a people, a civilisation, an epic story.The Water Kingdom takes us on a grand journey through China's past and present, offering a unique window through which we can begin to grasp the overwhelming complexity and teeming energy of the country and its people.
Water is a key that unlocks much of Chinese history and thought. The ubiquitous relationship that the Chinese people have had with water has made it an enduring metaphor for philosophical thought and artistic expression. From the Han emperors to Mao, the ability to manage the waters - to provide irrigation and defend against floods - became a barometer of political legitimacy, and attempts to do so have involved engineering works on a gigantic scale. Yet the strain that economic growth is putting on its water resources today may be the greatest threat to China's future.
The Water Kingdom is an epic, spell-binding story. Our guides are travellers and explorers, poets and painters, bureaucrats and activists, who have themselves struggled to come to terms with living in a world so shaped and permeated by water.
Autoren-Porträt von Philip Ball
Philip Ball, geboren 1962 in Newport / Isle of Wight, studierte Chemie und Physik in Oxford und Bristol, promovierte 1988. Er war zehn Jahre leitender Redakteur bei Nature, ist heute freier Publizist für Zeitungen und Zeitschriften wie "Nature" und "New Scientist". Ball hat vier Bücher geschrieben, darunter "Chemie der Zukunft", er lebt in London.
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- Autor: Philip Ball
- 2016, 320 Seiten, Maße: 15,3 x 23,5 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Bodley Head
- ISBN-10: 1847923550
- ISBN-13: 9781847923554
- Erscheinungsdatum: 04.08.2016
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Englisch
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