Corey Byrnes

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Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China's Three GorgesHardcover, 15 January 2019

Fixing Landscape: A Techno-Poetic History of China's Three Gorges
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Part of Series
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia Un
Print Length
344 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Date Published
15 Jan 2019
ISBN-10
0231188064
ISBN-13
9780231188067

Description

In 1994, workers broke ground on China's Three Gorges Dam. By its completion in 2012, the dam had transformed the ecology of the Yangzi River, displaced over a million people, and forever altered a landscape immortalized in centuries of literature and art. The controversial history of the dam is well known; what this book uncovers are its unexpected connections to the cultural traditions it seems to sever. By reconsidering the dam in relation to the aesthetic history of the Three Gorges region over more than two millennia, Fixing Landscape offers radically new ways of thinking about cultural and spatial production in contemporary China.

Corey Byrnes argues that this monumental feat of engineering can only be understood by confronting its status as a techno-poetic act, a form of landscaping indebted to both the technical knowledge of engineers and to the poetic legacies of the Gorges as cultural site. Synthesizing methods drawn from premodern, modern, and contemporary Chinese studies, as well as from critical geography, art history, and the environmental humanities, Byrnes offers innovative readings of eighth-century poetry, paintings from the twelfth through twenty-first centuries, contemporary film, nineteenth-century British travelogues, and Chinese and Western maps, among other sources. Fixing Landscape shows that premodern poetry and visual art have something urgent to tell us about a contemporary experiment in spatial production. Poems and paintings may not build dams, but Byrnes argues that the Three Gorges Dam would not exist as we know it without them.

Product Details

Author:
Corey Byrnes
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
15 January 2019
Dimensions:
23.37 x 16 x 3.05 cm
ISBN-10:
0231188064
ISBN-13:
9780231188067
Language:
English
Location:
New York
Pages:
344
Weight:
635.03 gm

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