Unifying the Yangzi Watershed in Early Twentieth-Century China
Arcadia, Summer 2019, no. 28
Beginning in 1980, economic development and industrialization in Chongqing, China, has caused the energy production and consumption of coal products to rapidly increase. At the same time, pollution was on the rise.
Using Yung Chang’s 2007 documentary film Up the Yangtze, Weik von Mossner unravels the power struggles accompanying the construction of the world’s largest hydroelectric power plant—the Three Gorges Dam in China.