The water kingdom: a secret history of China

Introduction: rain on the Summer Palace

The great rivers : Yangtze and Yellow : the axes of China's geography

Out of the water : the myths and origins of ancient China

Finding the way : water as source and metaphor in Daoism and Confucianism

Channels of power : how China's waterways shaped its political landscape

Voyages of the eunuch admiral : how China explored the world

Rise and fall of the hydraulic state : taming the waters by bureaucracy

War on the waters : rivers and lakes as sites and instruments of conflict

Mao's dams : the technocratic vision of a new China

The fluid art of expression : how water infuses Chinese painting and literature

Water and China's future : threats, promises and a new dialogue.