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Journal Article
The China Quarterly
2007
Overview
KIRK A. DENTON The Cost of Power in China: The Three Gorges Dam and the Yangtze River Valley S T E V E N B E N S O N ( with essays by A. D. Coleman and Dai Qing and an interview by Jens Friis) Lake Orion, MI: After a three paragraph statement of purpose, Zorn gives us a page of facts about the billions of cubic feet and hundreds of tons of stone, concrete and metal used in the project and mentions the estimated two million people who were moved and ``8 millennia of history submerged'' to give the unfamiliar readers some idea of scale. [...]to Benson's book, there are no pictures of the migration while in progress, flood levels signs on walls, nor the dam site per se. Stanford University Press, 2007xxii + 520 pp. $75.00ISBN 978-0-8047-5304-3 doi:10.1017/S0305741007002366 Lillian Li's book on famine in north China has been a quarter century in the making.
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Cambridge University Press
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