LEADER 04510oam 2200613 450 001 9910254782203321 005 20190911100040.0 010 $a1-137-57231-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-1-137-57231-8 035 $a(OCoLC)946358280 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL028T 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000636112 100 $a20150921d2016 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aEnvironment, modernization and development in East Asia $eperspectives from environmental history /$fedited 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 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aHoundmills, Basingstoke Hampshire :$cPalgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 301 pages) $cillustrations, maps 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in World Environmental History,$x2730-9746 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a1-349-84803-4 311 $a1-137-57230-2 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aEnvironment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. Using local-level studies and the idea of co-production, it suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan. The volume opens up new points of comparison and exchange within East Asia and among East Asia, Europe, and North America. Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia adds significant new perspectives to Chinese, Japanese, and global environmental history, as well as world history and development studies. 410 0$aPalgrave studies in world environmental history. 606 $aEconomic development$xEnvironmental aspects$zEast Asia$xHistory 606 $aWater resources development$xEnvironmental aspects$zEast Asia$xHistory 606 $aLand use$xEnvironmental aspects$zEast Asia$xHistory 606 $aLandscape changes$zEast Asia$xHistory 606 $aSocial change$zEast Asia$xHistory 606 $aHuman ecology$zEast Asia$xHistory 607 $aEast Asia$xEnvironmental conditions$xHistory 607 $aEast Asia$xEconomic conditions 607 $aEast Asia$xSocial conditions 615 0$aEconomic development$xEnvironmental aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aWater resources development$xEnvironmental aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aLand use$xEnvironmental aspects$xHistory. 615 0$aLandscape changes$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial change$xHistory. 615 0$aHuman ecology$xHistory. 676 $a304.2095 702 $aLiu$b Cuirong$f1941- 702 $aBeattie$b James$f1977- 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910254782203321 996 $aEnvironment, Modernization and Development in East Asia$91938769 997 $aUNINA