SOAS – Society, Environment And State In The History Of China: Required Reading

By admin | Published: September 18, 2010

Economy, Elisabeth. The River Runs Black: The Environmental Challenge to China’s Future. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2004.
Elvin, Mark. The Retreat of the Elephants: an Environmental History of China. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2004.
Elvin, Mark and Liu Ts’ui-jung, eds. Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
He, Baochuan. China on the Edge: The Crisis of Ecology and Development. San Francisco: China Books and Periodicals, 1991.
Lee, James Z. and WANG Feng. One Quarter of Humanity: Malthusian Mythology and Chinese Realities, 1700-2000. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999.
Marks, Robert B. Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt: Environment and Economy in Late Imperial South China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Shapiro, Judith. Mao’s War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Smil, Vaclav. The Bad Earth: Environmental Degradation in China. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1984.
Smil, Vaclav. China’s Past, China’s Future: Energy, Food, Environment. New York, London: Routledge&Curzon, 2004 (Critical Asian Scholarship).

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