How China’s 5,100-year-old dams challenge Western narratives on despotism

Source: China – South China Morning PostWhile some Western scholars have maintained that the development of large-scale water projects fostered what they called “Oriental despotism”, new archaeological evidence from China has presented a different story.
According to the Key Laboratory of Archaeological Science and Cultural Heritage Protection at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the study has pushed the history of large-scale water conservancy in China back by nearly 3,000 years.
Researcher Liu Jianguo said in Beijing on…Read More

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