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A Harvard-China Project Research Seminar with Arunabh Ghosh, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Harvard University
Arunabh Ghosh is a historian of modern China, with research and teaching interests in social and economic history, history of science and statecraft, transnational history, and China-India history.
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Abstract: By the turn of the twenty-first century China was home to forty percent (one in three) of the world’s large dams. Striking as that infrastructural and environmental feat is, it tends to elide an equally remarkable investment in building small hydropower during a similar period. By 1981, there were nearly 90,000 small hydropower stations in the country. In this talk, I explore this latter history, situating it within the political economy and environmental history of the People’s Republic of China.
Co-sponsored by the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies and the Harvard-China Project, Harvard Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences.