Mao''s War Against Nature - Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China

Klappentext This book tells the story of environmental destruction and human suffering during the Mao years. Zusammenfassung Under Mao! the traditional Chinese ideal of 'harmony between heaven and humans' was abrogated in favor of Mao's insistence that 'people will conquer nature'. Mao and the Chinese Communist Party's 'war' to bend the physical world to human will often had disastrous consequences both for human beings and the natural environment. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1. Population, dams and political repression; 2. Deforestation, famine, and utopian urgency; 3. Grainfields in lakes and dogmatic uniformity; 4. War preparations and forcible relocations; 5. The legacy.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Judith Shapiro, Judith (American University Shapiro
• Mitarbeit: Alfred W. Crosby (Herausgeber), Donald Worster (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 05.03.2001
• EAN: 9780521786805
• ISBN: 978-0-521-78680-5
• Seiten: 332
• Serien: Studies in Environment and History; Studies in Environment and His; Studies in Environment and His
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Biologie > Ökologie; Sachbuch > Geschichte > Sonstiges; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Politikwissenschaft > Politische Wissenschaft und Politische Bildung