A HISTORICAL STUDY ON WATER UTILIZATION IN CHINA

1993年我们从阅读教授1992年所作的《中国水资源利用史研究目录》开始。我们很高兴地告诉大家，这本书很快就会被联合国教科文组织和东洋文库出版。从去年开始，每个成员都在为自己的主题进行进一步的研究和收集数据。我们聚集在一起报告我们的工作，并讨论他们，以加深我们对该项目的研究。在讨论的基础上，我们各自撰写了研究论文，并将其收录为《中国水资源利用的历史研究--科学研究资助项目报告（综合研究A）》，全面描述了中国从先秦到现在以及华北、华中、西北等广大地区的水资源利用状况。研究内容包括河道整治、灌溉、水运、水神、城市用水、水资源利用与社会经济结构等多个子课题，有助于加深对中国历史的认识。

1993 we begun with prof reading "A list of Historical Studies on Water Utilization in China" made in 1992. We are very happy to tall you it will be published by UNESCO and Toyo Bunko sooner.Every member kept on working on further research and collecting data for one's theme since last year.We come together to report our works and disccused them to deepen our study of the Project. With help of useful discussion, each of us made research papers and they are collected as "A historical study on water utilization in China, The report of Research Project, Grant - In-Aid for scientific Research (Synthetic study A)".Our study comprehensively describes Chinese water utilization of former Qin through the present and large areas as North, Central, North West of China. The study consists of various sub-themes as River Improvement, Irrigation, Transportation by by Water, Water God, Water Utilization in Cities, Water Utilization and social economic structure.We are quite sure that our study contributes to further understanding on Chinese history.