書名：【北京水事：清代至民初的飲用水與供水商 Water Lords: Beijing’s Drinking Water and Its Carriers, 1644–1937】
出版社：Brill
ISBN：978-90-04-69324-1
出版日期：2025年2月出版
Water Lords presents the untold story of drinking water and its carriers in Beijing from the imperial Qing to the Republican period. It adds an ecological perspective to existing studies by foregrounding water as a distinctive force that shaped urban life in the realms of technology, society, and politics.
With this book, Lei Zhang makes a new and meaningful contribution to the field of Chinese environmental history by attending to water as a daily necessity and examining the previously neglected arrangements that provided urban denizens with predictable access to this critical resource.
本書敘說從清帝國到民國時期，關於 #北京 飲用水與供水商（水夫）罕為人知的故事。在現有的研究基礎上增加生態視角，強調水在科技、社會、政治等領域塑造北京城市生活的獨特力量。張雷（香港嶺南大學歷史系副教授）在本書關注水作為日常必需品的重要性，檢視過往被忽視的制度與安排，這些措施確保了北京市民能穩定取得不可或缺的水資源，對中國環境史做出新穎且別具意義的貢獻。