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Sediments of Time Environment and Society in Chinese History Elvin Liu Hardback

Description: Sediments of Time Environment and Society in Chinese History This collection of essays is the first relatively comprehensive survey of the environmental history of China. Mark Elvin (Author), Ts'ui-jung Liu (Author) 9780521563819, Cambridge University Press Hardback, published 13 January 1998 846 pages 23.7 x 16 x 4.3 cm, 1.3 kg 'Sediments of Time is a pioneering effort in Chinese environmental history … [it] is an important addition to the scholarship on Chinese history and will no doubt encourage more research.' JOSA This collection of essays was the first relatively comprehensive survey of the environmental history of China. Written by some of the world's leading Western and Chinese experts, Sediments of Time crystallises a new and distinct field of scholarship that studies what happens when human social systems interact with the rest of the natural world. This book shows how deforestation, land-reclamation, settlement, and water-control, when mixed with an ever-changing climate, shape a distinct and often precarious environment. Pioneering essays explore new methodologies of historical environmental research, comparative perspectives setting China in the context of the West and Japan, and the impact of the early modern ecological transformation on the spread of diseases such as cholera and tuberculosis. This is an indispensable book for anyone who wants to understand either the foundations of modern China, or the deeper origins of many of China's most daunting contemporary challenges. Preface Introduction Mark Elvin The context China's environmental history in world persepective John McNeill Interpreting the physical environment Man's impact on the vegetation and landscape in the Inner Himalaya and Tibet Wolfgang Holzner and Monika Kriechbaum The villagers' view of environmental history in Yunnan province Nick Menzies Human Seettlement Environment versus water control Shiba Yshinobu Han immigration and the settlement of Taiwan Liu Ts'ui-Jung The Frontiers: Highlands and lowlands Anne Osborne Population and ecology along the frontier in Qing China Eduard Vermeer Water Clear waters versus muddy waters Pierre-Ètienne Will Action at a distance Mark Elvin and Su Ninghu Weather and Climate 'It never used to snow' Robert Marks Changes in climate, land, and human efforts Li Bozhong Diseases Cholera in China, 1820–1930 Kerrie MacPherson Environment and tuberculosis in modern China Zhang Yixia and Mark Elvin Representations of the environment - the offical mind From the Yellow River to the Huai Christian Lamouroux Official thinking on environmental issues and the state's environmental roles in eighteenth-century China Helen Dunstan Representations of the environment - literary and popular sensibility Ecologism versus moralism Paolo Santangelo Water, love, and labour Antonia Finnane The environment and early modern economic growth in Taiwan and Japan Non-reclamation deforestation in Taiwan, circa 1600–1976 Ch'en Kuo-tung Hydro-electricity and industrialization Tung An-ch'i Environmental problems and perceptions in early industrial Japan Tessa Morris-Suzuki Index. Subject Areas: Asian history [HBJF]

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BIC Subject Area 1: Asian history [HBJF]

Book Title: Sediments of Time

ISBN: 052156381X

Publication Date: 13/01/1998

Item Depth: 43

Number of Pages: 846 Pages

Language: English

Publication Name: Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Publication Year: 1998

Subject: Geography & Geosciences, History

Item Height: 237 mm

Item Weight: 1300 g

Type: Textbook

Author: Ts'ui-Jung Liu, Mark Elvin

Series: Studies in Environment and History

Item Width: 160 mm

Format: Hardcover

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