China's State Ideology and the Three Gorges Dam

This book uses the case of the Three Gorges Dam project to explore the Chinese state's use of ideology, namely the political theodicy of development, as a governing tactic in the reform era.

Yuen-ching Bellette Lee teaches Chinese politics under reform and international relations of East Asia at the University of California, Los Angeles.

1. Historical background of the dam 2. From "Socialism with Chinese Characteristics" to "China Dream" - the concept of development under reform 3. "Science" and "Socialist Democracy" - a new mode of governance after Mao 4. "Common Prosperity" - spatial production and subject transformation at the Three Gorges 5. "Mother River" and "Second Cradle of Chinese Civilization" - the cultural re-encoding of the Yangtze as a futurist nation 6. "March Toward the International" - the politics of global capital and transnational resistance