The River Dragon Has Come!: The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Yangtze River and Its People Book

	About the Editors and Contributors
	Preface
	Foreword: The River Dragon Has Come!
1	The Three Gorges Project: A Symbol of Uncontrolled Development in the Late Twentieth Century	3
2	A Profile of Dams in China	18
3	The World's Most Catastrophic Dam Failures: The August 1975 Collapse of the Banqiao and Shimantan Dams	25
4	Discussing Population Resettlement with Li Boning	39
	General Plan for Population Resettlement	40
	Is Developmental Resettlement Possible?	50
5	The Environmental Impacts of Resettlement in the Three Gorges Project	63
6	What Are the Three Gorges Resettlers Thinking?	70
7	A Survey of Resettlement in Badong County, Hubei Province	90
8	Resettlement in the Xin'an River Power Station Project	104
9	The Danger to Historical Relics and Cultural Antiquities in and around the Three Gorges Area: Interviews with the Director of the National History Museum of China, Yu Weichao	124
10	A Lamentation for the Yellow River: The Three Gate Gorge Dam (Sanmenxia)	143
11	Water Pollution in the Three Gorges Reservoir	160
12	Military Perspectives on the Three Gorges Project	171
	Epilogue: The New Golden Triangle of China	177
App. A	Acknowledgments from "General Plan for Population Resettlement"	191
App. B	Sediment Problems at the Three Gorges Dam	194
App. C	The Three Gorges Dam and the Fate of China's Southern Heritage	200
App. D	Priority-Level Cultural Antiquities in the Three Gorges Area	211
App. E	Archaeological Sites to Be Inundated in 1997 by the Construction of the Three Gorges Dam	212
App. F	Letter to Jiang Zemin Concerning Archaeological Sites	214
App. G	Major Cities and Sites to Be Affected by the Three Gorges Dam and Reservoir	220
	Biographic Glossary	221
	Index	229