《龙王之怒：1931年长江水灾》

《龙王之怒：1931年长江水灾》 is the book discussed in 65.龙王之怒：1931年的长江洪水. The episode presents it as a disaster-history study of the 1931 Yangtze flood that refuses to treat the event as only a natural calamity.

The book’s importance in the source is methodological. It lets the episode connect [[YangtzeRiver|长江]] hydrology, Wuhan / 武汉/Hankou / 汉口 urbanization, wetland loss, agriculture, dikes, war, famine, disease, folk religion, and modern relief institutions into one Natural Hazard As Social Disaster account.

Source Position

• The episode says the book won the Fairbank Prize in 2019.
• Its core interpretive value is showing how social vulnerability turns natural risk into mass suffering.
• The source uses the book to move between macro data and survivor experience rather than staying only with official statistics.

Connections

• Yangtze River / 长江, Wuhan / 武汉, and Hankou / 汉口 - central geography and urban case.
• Natural Hazard As Social Disaster, Wetland Adaptation, and Flood Control Risk Transfer - environmental-history frame.
• Famine Entitlement Failure, War-Disaster Compounding, Folk Religion Disaster Politics, and Disaster Relief Mismatch - social and political mechanisms developed from the episode.