Water Lords : Beijing’s Drinking Water and Its Carriers, 1644–1937

Lei ZHANG

doi:10.1163/9789004720800

Water Lords : Beijing’s Drinking Water and Its Carriers, 1644–1937

Lei ZHANG^*

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Department of History

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Abstract

Water Lords presents the untold story of drinking water and its carriers in Beijing from the imperial Qing to the Republican period. It adds an ecological perspective to existing studies by foregrounding water as a distinctive force that shaped urban life in the realms of technology, society, and politics.

With this book, Lei Zhang makes a new and meaningful contribution to the field of Chinese environmental history by attending to water as a daily necessity and examining the previously neglected arrangements that provided urban denizens with predictable access to this critical resource.

Original language	English
Publisher	Brill Academic Publishers
Number of pages	194
ISBN (Electronic)	9789004720800
ISBN (Print)	9789004693241
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004720800
Publication status	Published - Mar 2025

Publication series

Name	China Studies
Publisher	Brill
Volume	54
ISSN (Print)	1570-1344

UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

SDG 6 Clean Water and Sanitation
SDG 11 Sustainable Cities and Communities

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