Whangpoo Conservancy Board Study,the View Of Engineering,Sovereignty And Municipal Administration (1905-1938)

Whangpoo Conservancy Board once had a great influence in modern history of Shanghai,but nowadays researches seldom present Whangpoo Conservancy Board's own history.The goal of this dissertation is to check some complicated aspects of Whangpoo Conservancy Board,such as the Sino-West conflicts during its history,the inner relationship of China which reflect by the Board and municipal administration problems,aim to develop regarded academy field with a longer and deeper study.This dissertation,stands on the side of the historiography,by using literature research methods,integrates the archives,official document books,essays,newspapers,magazines in late Qing and Republican period,discusses Whangpoo Conservancy Board's history from 1905 to 1938.In the view of hydraulic engineering,I argued that the works of Whangpoo Conservancy Board not only turned the Whangpoo River from an agricultural river to a commercial river,but also made the delta region's hydraulic engineering technologies changed and the ecosystem badly impaired.In the view of sovereignty disputes,I discovered that in the background of the Board's sovereignty disputes were some complicated motivations,the clashes among the Chinese also need to be valued.Whangpoo Conservancy Board should be seen as an “imperium in imperio”,as well as the old China customs.In the view of municipal administration,the content centred on the failure of “have Whangpoo Conservancy Board back movement”,finally,Whangpoo Conservancy Board defeats the Bureau of Harbor Affairs of Shanghai Special Municipality,it still has a very important place in the municipal administration domain and becomes a huge obstacle to the Shanghai Special Municipality's municipal unify goal,which the city long for.This discloses the weakness of KMT regime.