caa a22 4500 445806265 CHVBK 20180317145157.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170323e20110201xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10745-011-9378-y doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10745-011-9378-y Hu Zongze Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China aut The Travails of the Ninth Dragon God: The Struggle for Water, Worship, and the Politics of Getting By in a North China Village [Elektronische Daten] [Zongze Hu] This paper examines villagers' efforts to secure a reliable supply of drinking water in Ten Mile Inn, a rural community in North China. For most village residents, the Maoist era was a period of attacks on their religious beliefs and practices. It was also a time of often costly attempts to secure a more reliable supply of water. Village politics and factional disputes attended all these efforts and closely track the rise, fall, and ultimate reinstatement of the Ninth Dragon God, an important deity in Chinese pantheon, who many believe has full charge of rainwater, rivers, lakes, and seas. Those associated with the god constitute a source of authority and respect in addition to that of local state sanctioned leaders. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2011 State power nationallicence Water scarcity nationallicence Water governance nationallicence Dragon God nationallicence North China nationallicence Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/1(2011-02-01), 81-91 0300-7839 39:1<81 2011 39 10745 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9378-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10745-011-9378-y text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Hu Zongze Shandong University, Jinan, Shandong Province, China aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Human Ecology Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 39/1(2011-02-01), 81-91 0300-7839 39:1<81 2011 39 10745 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer