Controlling from Afar, Volume 69: The Daoguang Emperor's Management of the Grand Canal Crisis, 1824-1826 by Jane Leonard
Controlling from Afar, Volume 69: The Daoguang Emperor's Management of the Grand Canal Crisis, 1824-1826

Jane Leonard

Controlling from Afar, Volume 69: The Daoguang Emperor's Management of the Grand Canal Crisis, 1824-1826

Michigan Monographs in Chinese Studies

Jane Leonard

334 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction politics informative medium-paced

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Late in the winter of 1824, the Hongze Lake was dangerously swollen from floods and seepage in the region. As a rainstorm lashed the lake, wind and the waves tore two huge breaches in the dike along the lake's eastern perimeter, sending flood wate...

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