Government and civilization, the political scientist James C. Scott stressed, are not at all the same thing. In wide-ranging ...

Chinese people have struggled against the flooding of the Yellow River since ancient times, and conservation of the river has always been high on the country's agenda. Dong Zhanfeng, a research ...

The 1931 China Floods rank among the deadliest natural disasters ever recorded. Heavy rain and unusually heavy snowmelt caused the Yangtze River, along with other major rivers like the Yellow and ...