Controlling from Afar: The Daoguang Emperor's Management of the Grand Canal Crisis, 1824-1826 Volume 69

by Jane Leonard

Book Overview

Late in the winter of 1824, the Hongze Lake was dangerously swollen from floods and seepage in the region. As a rainstorm lashed the lake, wind and the waves tore two huge breaches in the dike along the lake's eastern perimeter, sending flood waters cascading down into the Gao-Bao lakes to the east, into the Grand Canal, and beyond the canal into the flood-prone, low-lying Xiahe region between the canal and the sea. Controlling from Afar examines...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0892641193
• ISBN13: 9780892641192
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: U of M Center for Chinese Studies
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"