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This collection of essays is 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
The context
China's environmental history in world persepective
Interpreting the physical environment
Man's impact on the vegetation and landscape in the Inner Himalaya and Tibet
The villagers' view of environmental history in Yunnan province
Human Seettlement
Environment versus water control
Han immigration and the settlement of Taiwan
The Frontiers: Highlands and lowlands
Population and ecology along the frontier in Qing China
Water
Clear waters versus muddy waters
Action at a distance
Weather and Climate
'It never used to snow'
Changes in climate, land, and human efforts
Diseases
Cholera in China, 1820-1930
Environment and tuberculosis in modern China
Representations of the environment - the offical mind
From the Yellow River to the Huai
Official thinking on environmental issues and the state's environmental roles in eighteenth-century China
Representations of the environment - literary and popular sensibility
Ecologism versus moralism
Water, love, and labour
The environment and early modern economic growth in Taiwan and Japan
Non-reclamation deforestation in Taiwan, circa 1600-1976
Hydro-electricity and industrialization
Environmental problems and perceptions in early industrial Japan
Index
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Sediments of Time 2 Part Paperback Set: Environment and Society in Chinese History

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