Yangtze River / 长江
Socialist mobility: a telling Michigan vote adds the contemporary river-cleanup branch. Gabriel Crossley says fish biomass in the Yangtze is up by more than 200% since 2021 after a 10-year commercial fishing ban, pollution-control measures, and strict enforcement, but the source keeps Three Gorges Dam, Chinese paddlefish, Baiji / 白鱀豚, and Environmental Repair Social Cost in view as limits on the recovery story.
The Yangtze River is the main river system in 65.龙王之怒：1931年的长江洪水. The episode follows the 1931 flood through winter snow, spring rain, summer downpours, upstream flood peaks, the Three Gorges route, the two-lake plain, and the Wuhan / 武汉/Hankou / 汉口 urban disaster.
The source treats the Yangtze not as a passive backdrop but as part of a long human-water system. Wetland Adaptation, rice agriculture, levees, urban expansion, reclaimed land, and transport infrastructure all changed how floodwater became social damage.
186.让你笑到头掉仍不忘思考，伟大的《消逝世界漫游指南》 adds the river as the habitat and loss context for the baiji. In the episode’s reading of 《消逝世界漫游指南》, Douglas Adams / 道格拉斯·亚当斯 and Mark Carwardine / 马克·卡沃丁 fail to find the dolphin while encountering meetings and baiji-branded publicity, making the river a case for Conservation Publicity Gap and late Functional Extinction concern.
Connections
- Gabriel Crossley, Xi Jinping, Yangtze Fishing Ban Recovery, Environmental Repair Social Cost, Three Gorges Dam, and Chinese paddlefish - river-cleanup and fishing-ban branch added by The Intelligence.
- Baiji / 白鱀豚, 周开亚 / Zhou Kaiya, Conservation Publicity Gap, and Functional Extinction - baiji extinction and publicity branch added by episode 186.
- Han River / 汉江, Dongting Lake / 洞庭湖, and Yunmengze / 云梦泽 - connected water and wetland geography in the episode.
- Wuhan / 武汉, Hankou / 汉口, Hubei / 湖北, and China - places most directly tied to the source’s Yangtze flood narrative.
- Flood Control Risk Transfer - levee and diversion politics around the river.
- Natural Hazard As Social Disaster and Climate Adaptation - broader risk and adaptation frame.