The first comprehensive survey of Chinese environmental history, this book crystallizes a new field of scholarship that studies the creation of distinct environments as a result of the interaction of human social systems with the natural world. Pioneering essays explore new methodologies of historical environmental research, comparisons of China with the West and Japan, and the impact of the early modern ecological transformation on the spread of disease. An indispensable book for those trying to understand the foundations of modern China or the origins of many of contemporary China's most daunting challenges.
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"This volume firmly brings the study of environmental history to focus as an integral part of Chinese history. ...this book will stimulate a good deal of thought on the subject and inspire further work." Ruth I. Meserve, Journal of Asian History
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The first comprehensive survey of Chinese environmental history, this book crystallizes a new field of scholarship that studies the creation of distinct environments as a result of the interaction of human social systems with the natural world. Pioneering essays explore new methodologies of historical environmental research, comparisons of China with the West and Japan, and the impact of the early modern ecological transformation on the spread of disease. An indispensable book for those trying to understand the foundations of modern China or the origins of many of contemporary China's most daunting challenges.
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"Environmental history is the historically documented part of the story of the life and death not of human individuals but of societies, and of species, both others and our own, in terms of their relationships with the world about them." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
harvest ratings, intermediate rice, statecraft anthology, pengmin shi, nongtian shuili, fangzhi congshu, agricultural encyclopedia, highland reclamation, lumbering grounds, supplementary fertilizer, irrigation gates, granary reserves, gazetteer series, agricultural land reclamation, antipollution movements, late rice, granary stocks, bay littoral, jingshi wenbian, deficient harvests, shack people, appropriate human action, abandoned delta, true cholera, lumbering activities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Yellow River, Hangzhou Bay, Bank of Taiwan, New York, Han Chinese, Lake Tai, Mark Elvin, Yangzi River, South Lake, Zheng Guo, Grand Canal, Hong Kong, Qiantang River, Cambridge University Press, Sun Moon Lake, Southern Song, Stanford University Press, Chen Hongmou, Wang Shixiong, Academia Sinica, Lian Heng, Danshui Ting, Finance Commission, Mingzi Shan, Shi Tianfu New!
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"Environmental history is the historically documented part of the story of the life and death not of human individuals but of societies, and of species, both others and our own, in terms of their relationships with the world about them." Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
harvest ratings, intermediate rice, statecraft anthology, pengmin shi, nongtian shuili, fangzhi congshu, agricultural encyclopedia, highland reclamation, lumbering grounds, supplementary fertilizer, irrigation gates, granary reserves, gazetteer series, agricultural land reclamation, antipollution movements, late rice, granary stocks, bay littoral, jingshi wenbian, deficient harvests, shack people, appropriate human action, abandoned delta, true cholera, lumbering activities Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Yellow River, Hangzhou Bay, Bank of Taiwan, New York, Han Chinese, Lake Tai, Mark Elvin, Yangzi River, South Lake, Zheng Guo, Grand Canal, Hong Kong, Qiantang River, Cambridge University Press, Sun Moon Lake, Southern Song, Stanford University Press, Chen Hongmou, Wang Shixiong, Academia Sinica, Lian Heng, Danshui Ting, Finance Commission, Mingzi Shan, Shi Tianfu New!
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- Science and Civilisation in China: Volume 6, Biology and Biological Technology; Part 6, Medicine by Joseph Needham on 5 pages
- The Chinese Garden: History, Art and Architecture, Third Edition by Maggie Keswick on page 627, page 647, and page 650
- Cholera Problem by Oscar Felsenfeld on page 487, page 489, and page 492
- Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan (Harvard East Asian Monographs) by Peter C. Perdue on page 221, page 232, and page 606
- Evolution of Infectious Disease by Paul W. Ewald on page 7, and page 516
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- Mao's War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China (Studies in Environment and History) by Judith Shapiro on 5 pages
- The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China by Professor Mark Elvin on 5 pages
- International Aid and China's Environment: Taming the Yellow Dragon (Routledge Studies on China in Transition) by Katherine Morton in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Environment, Power, and Injustice: A South African History (Studies in Environment and History) by Nancy J. Jacobs in Front Matter
- Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900-1900 (Studies in Environment and History) by Alfred W. Crosby in Front Matter
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