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    Area of Science:

    • Environmental History
    • Infrastructure Studies
    • Chinese History

    Background:

    • Dominant focus on megaprojects in Chinese water management.
    • Limited attention to small-scale, multifunctional water infrastructure in rural areas.

    Purpose of the Study:

    • To challenge the megaproject focus in Chinese water management.
    • To uncover the history of small-scale water infrastructure in rural Jiangsu.
    • To reframe water infrastructure as a product of localized creativity.

    Main Methods:

    • Archival research.
    • Fieldwork.

    Main Results:

    • Documented a parallel history of small-scale, multifunctional water infrastructure in rural Jiangsu.
    • Revealed how local engineers embedded competing aesthetic and ideological visions (high modernism, revolutionary design, vernacular innovation) into technical landscapes.
    • Demonstrated that water infrastructure is a product of localized creativity and negotiation, not just top-down imposition.

    Conclusions:

    • Re-scales development by decentering state narratives.
    • Contributes to infrastructure studies and Chinese history by highlighting localized creativity and negotiation in water management.
    • Challenges the dominant narrative of Chinese water management focused solely on megaprojects.