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Today opponents of large-scale dam projects in China, rather than being greeted with indifference or repression, are part of the hydropower policymaking process itself. What accounts for this dramatic change in this critical policy area surrounding China's insatiable quest for energy? In China's Water Warriors, Andrew C. Mertha argues that as China has become increasingly market driven, decentralized, and politically heterogeneous, the control and management of water has transformed from an unquestioned economic imperative to a lightning rod of bureaucratic infighting, societal opposition, and open protest.Although bargaining has always been present in Chinese politics, more recently the media, nongovernmental organizations, and other activists-actors hitherto denied a seat at the table-have emerged as serious players in the policy-making process. Drawing from extensive field research in some of the most remote parts of Southwest China, China's Water Warriors contains rich narratives of the widespread opposition to dams in Pubugou and Dujiangyan in Sichuan province and the Nu River Project in Yunnan province.Mertha concludes that the impact and occasional success of such grassroots movements and policy activism signal a marked change in China's domestic politics. He questions democratization as the only, or even the most illuminating, indicator of political liberalization in China, instead offering an informed and hopeful picture of a growing pluralization of the Chinese policy process as exemplified by hydropower politics.For the 2010 paperback edition, Mertha tests his conclusions against events in China since 2008, including the Olympics, the devastating 2008 Wenchuan earthquake, and the Uighar and Tibetan protests of 2008 and 2009.

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Environmental management

History of Asia

Activism

China

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 juin 2011
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9780801461705
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	19 Mo

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China’s Water Warriors

With a New Preface

Citizen Action and Policy Change

ANDREW C. MERTHA

Cornell University Press

Ithaca & London

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First published 2008 by Cornell University Press First printing, Cornell Paperbacks, 2010

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data

Mertha, Andrew, 1965– China’s water warriors : citizen action and policy change / Andrew C. Mertha. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 9780801446368 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 9780801476686 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Water resources development—Political aspects—China 2. Environmentalism— Political aspects—China. 3. Economic development—Environmental aspects—China. 4. Environmental policy—China. 5. China—Politics and government—1976–2002. 6. China—Politics and government—2002– I. Title. HD1698.C5M47 2008 333.9100951—dc22 2007036946

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Contents

List of Tables and Figures ix List of Selected Institutions and Abbreviations xi Preface to the Paperback Edition xiii Preface xxiii

China’s Hydraulic Society?1 Actors, Interests, and Issues at Stake27 From Policy Conﬂict to Political Showdown: The Failure at Pubugou65

From Economic Development to Cultural Heritage: Expanding the Sphere at Dujiangyan94

The Nu River Project and the Middle Ground of Political Pluralization110

A Kinder, Gentler “Fragmented Authoritarianism”?

Index 163

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Tables and Figures

Tables 1.1. Selected bottomup oppositional campaigns in China15 1.2. Schematic of the argument19 1.3. China’s coal production and consumption, 1993–200326 6.1. Incidents of social unrest in China, 1993–2005153

Figures 2.1.Yiminpropaganda, Wangong village, Hanyuan county32 2.2. Organizational structure of the three principal hydropowerxitong42 2.3. Red ﬂag over the Nu River49 2.4. Dam construction at Dimaluo51 3.1. Construction of the Pubugou Dam70 3.2. Three views of Dashu74–75 3.3. Protesters occupying the Pubugou Dam site82 3.4. Postyiminremoval land use regulations87 4.1. Dujiangyan Irrigation System95 4.2. “The Min River, Report on the Guan County Watershed Plan”96 5.1. Map of the Nu River Project118 5.2. Still image, “The Voice of the Nu River”128 5.3. Surveying equipment, Songta, Tibet142