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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254782203321

Titolo

Environment, modernization and development in East Asia : perspectives from environmental history / / edited by Ts'ui-jung Liu, adjunct research fellow, Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, and James Beattie, director, Historial Research Unit, University of Waikato, New Zealand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Houndmills, Basingstoke Hampshire : , : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

1-137-57231-0

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xvi, 301 pages) : illustrations, maps

Collana

Palgrave Studies in World Environmental History, , 2730-9746

Disciplina

304.2095

Soggetti

Economic development - Environmental aspects - East Asia - History

Water resources development - Environmental aspects - East Asia - History

Land use - Environmental aspects - East Asia - History

Landscape changes - East Asia - History

Social change - East Asia - History

Human ecology - East Asia - History

East Asia Environmental conditions History

East Asia Economic conditions

East Asia Social conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History; James Beattie and Ts'ui-jung Liu -- PART I: MODERNIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES -- 1. Agriculture, Population and Environment in Late Imperial China; E. N. Anderson -- 2. Chinese Migrants and Colonial Development in the British Empire, 1860s-1920s: A Case Study; James Beattie -- PART II: WATERSCAPES: DEVELOPMENT, MODERNIZATION AND SOCIETY -- 3. Dike-based Communities between Water and Sand: The Sand-land Environmental System in Dongchong, South China, 1720s-1980s; Jianxiong Ma -- 4. Waterscape and Social Transformations in Southern Taiwan: The



Damming of Mudan Creek; Shao-hua Liu and Shu-min Huang -- PART III: LANDSCAPE COMMODIFICATION -- 5. The Role of the Shin Nihon Hakkei in Redrawing Japanese Attitudes to Landscape; Thomas Jones -- 6. The Development of Cinchona Cultivation and 'Kina Gaku' in the Japanese Empire, 1912-45; Ya-wen Ku -- 7. The Energetics of Militarized Landscapes: The Ecology of War in Henan, 1938-50; Micah S. Muscolino -- PART IV: REACTING TO DEVELOPMENT -- 8. Environmental Non-Government Organizations in China since the 1970s; Sheng Fei -- 9. Taiwan's Land Use after World War II: An Ecological Modernization Approach; Hsin-Hsun Huang, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, and Shih-Jung Hsu -- 10. Material Fetters and Spiritual Transcendence: Zhuang Zi and Environmental Thought; Yim-tze Kwong.

Sommario/riassunto

Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. Using local-level studies and the idea of co-production, it suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan. The volume opens up new points of comparison and exchange within East Asia and among East Asia, Europe, and North America. Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia adds significant new perspectives to Chinese, Japanese, and global environmental history, as well as world history and development studies.