{"product_id":"contested-environmentalisms-trees-and-the-making-of-modern-china-hardback-9781503640306","title":"Contested Environmentalisms; Trees and the Making of Modern China (Hardback) 9781503640306","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eContested Environmentalisms\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eTrees and the Making of Modern China\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eCheng Li (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781503640306\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 21 January 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e294 pages, 32 halftones\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.6 cm, 0.57 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"Cheng Li's \u003ci\u003eContested Environmentalisms\u003c\/i\u003e skillfully analyzes central yet heretofore underexamined tensions and ambiguities in Chinese environmentalisms, expertly drawing on diverse forms of media to demonstrate changing yet nearly constantly conflicting attitudes toward tree-planting and conservation more broadly, from the early twentieth century until today. This deeply researched book is a must-read for students and scholars of China as well as of the environmental humanities and social sciences.\"—Karen L. Thornber, Harvard University \"\u003ci\u003eContested Environmentalisms\u003c\/i\u003eis an utterly original, creative, and compelling study of the advent of conservationist consciousness in modern China and its entwinement with China's struggle for modernity, ideological rationale, ethnic settlement, and the natural environment throughout the twentieth century. Li takes an unusual protagonist—trees—in modern Chinese literature and uncovers a rich, fascinating, interdisciplinary and layered history of how arboreal modernity figures at the heart of China's ecological awareness and assertions. In an era of eco-consciousness and fragmenting global culture, this is a vital read.\"—Jing Tsu, Yale University \"Cheng Li has gifted us a brilliant account of the ecological, political, economic, psychological, and aesthetic dimensions to China's ever-evolving relationship with trees. \u003ci\u003eContested Environmentalisms\u003c\/i\u003e offers a novel perspective that will excite anyone interested in modern China. The book will also inspire scholars in fields ranging from forestry to the environmental humanities. I expect \u003ci\u003eContested Environmentalisms\u003c\/i\u003e to provoke many robust discussions, in the classroom and beyond. A tour-de-force.\"—Rob Nixon, Princeton University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor decades, tree planting and forestry have been pivotal to Chinese environmentalism. During the Mao era, while forests were razed to fuel rapid increases in industrial production, the \"Greening the Motherland\" campaign promoted conservationist tree-planting nationwide. \u003ci\u003eContested Environmentalisms\u003c\/i\u003e explores the seemingly contradictory rhetoric and desires of Chinese conservation from the early twentieth century through to the present.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eDrawing on literary, cinematic, scientific, archival, and digital media sources, Cheng Li investigates the emergence, evolution, and devolution of Chinese conservationist ideas. Combining literary, historical, and environmental studies approaches, he shows that these ideas acquired their value and assumed their power precisely because of their malleability and adaptability. Li historicizes authoritarian environmentalism and probes the global-local dynamics underlying conservationist ideas that energize environmental impulses in China. Examining ethnic borderlands, the Beijing political center, and China's growth on the world stage, this book demonstrates the strength of Chinese environmentalism to adapt and survive through tumultuous change lies in what seems to be a weakness: its inconsistency and contestation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e  Introduction\u003cbr\u003e  1. Arbor Day: The Rise and Fall of China's Environmentalism in the Republican Era (1912–49)\u003cbr\u003e  2. Selling the Forestry Revolution: The Rhetoric of Afforestation in Socialist China (1949–61)\u003cbr\u003e  3. Marching into the Desert: Planting Ethnic Borderlands in Mao-Era Ecocinema\u003cbr\u003e  4. Deweaponizing Forests and Engineering Nature: Militarization, Coming-of-Age Stories, and Science Fiction in the Mao Era\u003cbr\u003e  5. Great Green Awakening: Ecological Science and Chinese Conservation Literature of the 1980s\u003cbr\u003e  Coda: Arbor Day Is Every Day!: Virtual Arbor Day and Consumer Environmentalism\u003cbr\u003e  Notes\u003cbr\u003e  Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e  Index\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52702259413272,"sku":"9781503640306","price":48.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/contested-environmentalisms-trees-and-the-making-of-modern-china-hardback-9781503640306","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}