{"product_id":"sediments-of-time-environment-and-society-in-chinese-history-hardback-9780521563819","title":"Sediments of Time; Environment and Society in Chinese History (Hardback) 9780521563819","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSediments of Time\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEnvironment and Society in Chinese History\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis collection of essays is the first relatively comprehensive survey of the environmental history of China.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMark Elvin (Author), Ts'ui-jung Liu (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521563819, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 January 1998\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e846 pages, 67 b\/w illus.  2 colour illus.  40 maps  24 tables\u003cbr\u003e23.7 x 16 x 4.3 cm, 1.3 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'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\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Introduction Mark Elvin\u003cbr\u003e The context\u003cbr\u003e China's environmental history in world persepective John McNeill\u003cbr\u003e Interpreting the physical environment\u003cbr\u003e Man's impact on the vegetation and landscape in the Inner Himalaya and Tibet Wolfgang Holzner and Monika Kriechbaum\u003cbr\u003e The villagers' view of environmental history in Yunnan province Nick Menzies\u003cbr\u003e Human Seettlement\u003cbr\u003e Environment versus water control Shiba Yshinobu\u003cbr\u003e Han immigration and the settlement of Taiwan Liu Ts'ui-Jung\u003cbr\u003e The Frontiers: Highlands and lowlands Anne Osborne\u003cbr\u003e Population and ecology along the frontier in Qing China Eduard Vermeer\u003cbr\u003e Water\u003cbr\u003e Clear waters versus muddy waters Pierre-Ètienne Will\u003cbr\u003e Action at a distance Mark Elvin and Su Ninghu\u003cbr\u003e Weather and Climate\u003cbr\u003e 'It never used to snow' Robert Marks\u003cbr\u003e Changes in climate, land, and human efforts Li Bozhong\u003cbr\u003e Diseases\u003cbr\u003e Cholera in China, 1820–1930 Kerrie MacPherson\u003cbr\u003e Environment and tuberculosis in modern China Zhang Yixia and Mark Elvin\u003cbr\u003e Representations of the environment - the offical mind\u003cbr\u003e From the Yellow River to the Huai Christian Lamouroux\u003cbr\u003e Official thinking on environmental issues and the state's environmental roles in eighteenth-century China Helen Dunstan\u003cbr\u003e Representations of the environment - literary and popular sensibility\u003cbr\u003e Ecologism versus moralism Paolo Santangelo\u003cbr\u003e Water, love, and labour Antonia Finnane\u003cbr\u003e The environment and early modern economic growth in Taiwan and Japan\u003cbr\u003e Non-reclamation deforestation in Taiwan, circa 1600–1976 Ch'en Kuo-tung\u003cbr\u003e Hydro-electricity and industrialization Tung An-ch'i\u003cbr\u003e Environmental problems and perceptions in early industrial Japan Tessa Morris-Suzuki\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Asian history [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Asian history\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Asian%20history%20%5BHBJF%5D%22\"\u003eHBJF\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46065994531096,"sku":"9780521563819","price":139.88,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521563819i.jpg?v=1691408632","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sediments-of-time-environment-and-society-in-chinese-history-hardback-9780521563819","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}