Mao's war against nature : politics and the environment in Revolutionary China /
Judith Shapiro, in clear and compelling prose, relates the great, untold story of the devastating impact of Chinese politics on China's environment during the Mao years. Maoist China provides an example of extreme human interference in the natural world in an era in which human relationships we...
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Series: | Studies in environment and history.
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| Online Access: | CONNECT |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Population, dams, and political repression: a story of two environmental disasters and the scientists who tried to avert them
- Deforestation, famine, and utopian urgency: how the Great Leap Forward mobilized the Chinese people to attack nature
- Grainfields in lakes and dogmatic uniformity: how "Learning from Dazhai" became an exercise in excess
- War preparations and forcible relocations: how factories polluted the mountains and youths "opened" the frontiers
- The legacy.
