Dr. Celeste Yunxiao Yue

Yue Yunxiao is a researcher at the Institute of Historical Geography and Environment Evolution, Taiyuan Normal University, China. She obtained her doctorate degree in historical geography from Fudan University, China, in 2013.

She is currently a part-time researcher at the Northwest Institute of Historical Environment and Socio-Economic Development, Shaanxi Normal University, China, and a member of the Society of the Ancient Capital of Shaanxi. Her research focuses mainly on the environmental transformation and the economic and social development of the Yellow River basin and Loess Plateau in from 1000 BCE until today, involving water conservancy development, ecological evolution, ecological and social responses to soil erosion, the role of the government and the people, and geospatial analysis. She has a multidisciplinary background and a broad academic vision with a focus on the collection of folk documents. She uses a number of different techniques and tools and conducts field investigation of vernacular and historical water landscapes.

RCC Research Project: Another Jiangnan: Frontier, Nation, Landscape, and Water Conservancy on Ningxia Plain of the Yellow River Basin in China, 1368–2000

Selected Publications:

• “国家·族群·环境:康雍乾时期农牧交错带政区变迁的多元面向——宁夏府新渠、宝丰二县置废研究” [State, ethnic group, and environment: Multiple aspects of the change of administrative areas in the agricultural and pastoral ecotone during the Kang-Yong-Qian period in Qing dynasty—A study of Ningxia province], 社会史研究 [Social history research], no. 1 (2018): 203–24. https://tinyurl.com/yck2axmj.
• “Controlling Water and Revitalizing the City: The Life History of Taiyuan City since the Song Dynasty: Focusing on the Prevention and Control of Flood in the Fenhe River.” Fujian Tribune (The Humanities & Social Sciences), no. 4 (2018): 110–17.
• “State Intervention in Water Conservancy Management in Ningxia Plain in the Qing Dynasty.” Agricultural Archaeology, no. 1 (2014): 163–68.
• “民国时期宁夏平原的水利组织” [Water conservancy organization in Ningxia Plain during the Republic of China]. Lanzhou Academic Journal, no. 5 (2013): 74–78. https://tinyurl.com/49fn6bmk.
• “Water Conservancy Development and Environmental Change in Ningxia Plain from Qing Dynasty to Republic of China.” PhD diss., Fudan University, 2013.
• “欧洲环境史学会第四届国际学术研讨会综述” [Review of the fourth conference of the European Society for Environmental History Environmental Connections: Europe and the Wider World]. Historiography Quarterly, no. 2 (2009): 129–38. https://tinyurl.com/2hvsart6.