Sediments of Time
豆瓣
Environment and Society in Chinese History
Mark Elvin / Ts'ui-jung Liu
简介
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.
contents
Notes on Chinese Characters, Their Roman Transcription, and Terminology
1.
Introduction /
Mark Elvin
2.
China's Environmental History in World Perspective /
J. R. McNeill
3.
Man's Impact on the Vegetation and Landscape in the Inner Himalaya and Tibet /
Wolfgang Holzner and Monika Kriechbaum
4.
The Villagers' view of Environmental History in Yunnan Province /
Nicholas K. Menzies
5.
Environment versus Water Control: The Case of the Southern Hangzhou Bay Area from the Mid-Tang Through the Qing /
Shiba Yoshinobu
6.
Han Migration and the Settlement of Taiwan: The Onset of Environmental Change /
Liu Tsui-jung
7.
Highlands and Lowlands: Economic and Ecological Interactions in the Lower Yangzi Region under the Qing /
Anne Osborne
8.
Population and Ecology along the Frontier in Qing China /
Eduard B. Vermeer
9.
Clear Waters versus Muddy Waters: The Zheng-Bai Irrigation System of Shaanxi Province in the Late-Imperial Period /
Pierre-Etienne Will
10.
Action at a Distance: The Influence of the Yellow River on Hangzhou Bay since A.D. 1000 /
Mark Elvin and Su Ninghu
11.
"It Never Used to Snow": Climatic Variability and Harvest Yields in Late-Imperial South China, 1650-1850 /
Robert B. Marks
12.
Changes in Climate, Land, and Human Efforts: The Production of Wet-Field Rice in Jiangnan during the Ming and Qing Dynasties /
Li Bozhong
13.
Cholera in China, 1820-1930: An Aspect of the Internationalization of Infectious Disease /
Kerrie L. MacPherson
14.
Environment and Tuberculosis in Modern China /
Zhang Yixia and Mark Elvin
15.
From the Yellow River to the Huai: New Representations of a River Network and the Hydraulic Crisis of 1128 /
Christian Lamouroux
16.
Official Thinking on Environmental Issues and the State's Environmental Roles in Eighteenth-Century China /
Helen Dunstan
17.
Ecologism versus Moralism: Conceptions of Nature in Some Literary Texts of Ming-Qing Times /
Paolo Santangelo
18.
Water, Love, and Labor: Aspects of a Gendered Environment /
Antonia Finnane
19.
Nonreclamation Deforestation in Taiwan, c. 1600-1976 /
Kuo-tung Ch'en
20.
Hydroelectricity and Industrialization: The Economic, Social, and Environmental Impacts of the Sun Moon Lake Power Plants /
An-Chi Tung
21.
Environmental Problems and Perceptions in Early Industrial Japan /
Tessa Morris-Suzuki.
