Floods and the Nine Provinces

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Chapter One: Flood Memory

7 entries

1. 01Why Does Flood Memory Mark a Civilizational Beginning?ConceptARCHISFOL
2. 02How Does the Flood under Yao Appear in Early Texts?ResearchHISFOL
3. 03What Does “Enveloping Mountains and Overtopping Hills” Describe?ConceptHISFOL
4. 04Can a Flood Myth Be Equated with One Historical Disaster?ResearchARCHISFOL
5. 05Why Do Different Regions Preserve Flood Memories?EncyclopediaARCHISFOL
6. 06How Can Archaeology Identify Ancient Floods?ResearchARCHIS
7. 07How Should Flood, Water Control and Dynastic Narratives Be Read?EncyclopediaARCHISFOLTXT

02

Chapter Two: Gun

7 entries

1. 01GunFigureHISFOLTXT
2. 02Why Are Gun and Yu Written as Father and Son?ResearchHISFOL
3. 03Did Gun Really Rely Only on Blocking the Waters?ResearchHISFOLTXT
4. 04What Is the Self-Swelling Earth?ConceptHISFOLTXT
5. 05Why Does Gun Fail after Nine Years?ResearchHISFOL
6. 06How Is Gun’s Death at Feather Mountain Interpreted?ResearchHISFOL
7. 07How Did Stories of Gun’s Posthumous Transformation Develop?LegendHISFOLTXT

03

Chapter Three: Yu

8 entries

1. 01Yu the GreatFigureARCHISFOL
2. 02Why Does Shun Appoint Yu to Continue the Work?EventHISFOL
3. 03Is Channeling versus Blocking the Whole Difference between Gun and Yu?ResearchHISFOLTXT
4. 04What Do the Thirteen Years of Flood Control Mean?ConceptHISFOL
5. 05How Was the “Three Passes by Home” Story First Told?ResearchHISFOLTXT
6. 06Why Do Yu’s Callused Hands and Feet Mark Sage Rule?ConceptHISFOL
7. 07How Do Levels, Lines, Compasses and Squares Enter Yu’s Story?EncyclopediaHISFOL
8. 08Where Do Dragons, Turtles and Divine Helpers Belong?ResearchHISFOLTXT

04

Chapter Four: The Nine Provinces

8 entries

1. 01The Nine ProvincesConceptHISFOL
2. 02Is the Tribute of Yu a Map or Political Geography?ResearchHIS
3. 03What Does “Following Mountains, Cutting Timber and Dredging Rivers” Mean?ConceptHISFOL
4. 04Why Do Lists of the Nine Provinces Differ?ResearchHIS
5. 05How Does Tribute according to the Land Link Ecology and Rule?EncyclopediaHIS
6. 06How Do Mountains and Rivers Form a Spatial Framework?ConceptHISFOL
7. 07Can the Nine Provinces Be Drawn as a Modern Administrative Map?ResearchHISWEB
8. 08How Are Yu’s Nine Tripods Related to the Nine Provinces?LegendHISFOLTXT

05

Chapter Five: Lady Tushan and Qi

8 entries

1. 01Lady TushanFigureHISFOLTXT
2. 02What Layers Shape Yu’s Marriage to Lady Tushan?ResearchHISFOLTXT
3. 03Why Is “Waiting for the One” Called a Beginning of Southern Song?ResearchHISFOLTXT
4. 04QiFigureHISFOL
5. 05What Kind of Polity Does the Assembly at Tushan Imagine?EventHISFOL
6. 06Whom Was Yu Said to Have Chosen as Successor?ResearchHISFOL
7. 07Why Does Qi’s Succession Mark a Major Turn?EventHISFOL
8. 08How Was the Shift from Public to Hereditary Rule Narrated?ResearchHISFOLTXT

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Chapter Six: The Threshold of Xia

7 entries

1. 01What Layers of Textual Evidence Concern the Xia?ResearchHIS
2. 02How Does Shiji Organize the First Dynasty?ResearchHIS
3. 03What Do Bronze Inscriptions Tell Us about Yu Traditions?ResearchARCHIS
4. 04Why Is the Sui Gong Xu Important for Studying Yu?EncyclopediaARCHIS
5. 05Can Erlitou Culture Be Equated Directly with the Xia?ResearchARCHIS
6. 06How Do Early Hydraulic Sites Enter the Flood-Control Debate?ResearchARCHIS
7. 07From Yu to the Early State: What Can Be Established?EncyclopediaARCHISFOL