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  • Border of Water and Ice

    The Yalu River and Japan's Empire in Korea and Manchuria

    de Joseph A. Seeley ...
    Series series The Environments of East Asia
    Border of Water and Ice explores the significance of the Yalu River as a strategic border between Korea and Manchuria (Northeast China) during a period of Japanese imperial expansion into the region. The Yalu's seasonal patterns of freezing, thawing, and flooding shaped colonial efforts to control who and what could cross the border. Joseph A. Seeley shows how the unpredictable movements of water, ... Leer más

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  • Ecological States

    Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China

    de Jesse Rodenbiker ...
    Series series The Environments of East Asia
    Ecological States examines ecological policies in the People's Republic of China to show how campaigns of scientifically based environmental protection transform nature and society. While many point to China's ecological civilization programs as a new paradigm for global environmental governance, Jesse Rodenbiker argues that ecological redlining extends the reach of the authoritarian state ... Leer más

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  • Forces of Nature

    New Perspectives on Korean Environments

    Edición de David Fedman, Eleana J. Kim, Albert L. Park ...
    Series series The Environments of East Asia
    Bringing together a multidisciplinary conversation about the entanglement of nature and society in the Korean peninsula, Forces of Nature aims to define and develop the field of the Korean environmental humanities. At its core, the volume works to foreground non-human agents that have long been marginalized in Korean studies, placing flora, fauna, mineral deposits, and climatic conditions that ... Leer más

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  • The River Runs Black

    The Environmental Challenge to China's Future

    de Elizabeth C. Economy ...
    Series series A Council on Foreign Relations Book
    China's spectacular economic growth over the past two decades has dramatically depleted the country's natural resources and produced skyrocketing rates of pollution. Environmental degradation in China has also contributed to significant public health problems, mass migration, economic loss, and social unrest. In The River Runs Black, Elizabeth C. Economy examines China's growing environmental ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD

  • The Struggle for Sustainability in Rural China

    Environmental Values and Civil Society

    de Bryan Tilt ...
    Though China's economy is projected to become the world's largest within the next twenty years, industrial pollution threatens both the health of the country's citizens and the natural resources on which their economy depends. Capturing the consequences of this reality, Bryan Tilt conducts an in-depth, ethnographic study of Futian Township, a rural community reeling from pollution.The industrial ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • China's Environmental Challenges

    de Judith Shapiro ...
    Series series China Today
    China’s huge environmental challenges are significant for us all. They affect not only the health and well-being of China but the very future of the planet.In this trailblazing book, noted China specialist and environmentalist Judith Shapiro investigates China’s struggle to achieve sustainable development against a backdrop of acute rural poverty and soaring middle class consumption. Using five ... Leer más

    $23.75 USD

  • Bound Feet, Young Hands

    Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China

    de Laurel Bossen, Hill Gates ...
    Footbinding was common in China until the early twentieth century, when most Chinese were family farmers. Why did these families bind young girls' feet? And why did footbinding stop? In this groundbreaking work, Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates upend the popular view of footbinding as a status, or even sexual, symbol by showing that it was an undeniably effective way to get even very young girls to ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • The River, the Plain, and the State

    An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–1128

    de Ling Zhang ...
    Series series Studies in Environment and History
    On July 19, 1048, the Yellow River breached its banks, drastically changing its course across the Hebei Plain and turning it into a delta where the river sought a path out to the ocean. This dramatic shift of forces in the natural world resulted from political deliberation and hydraulic engineering of the imperial state of the Northern Song Dynasty. It created eighty years of social suffering, ... Leer más

    $38.99 USD

  • Korea's Place in the Sun: A Modern History (Updated)

    A Modern History

    de Bruce Cumings ...
    "Passionate, cantankerous, and fascinating. Rather like Korea itself."--Nicholas D. Kristof, New York Times Book ReviewKorea has endured a "fractured, shattered twentieth century," and this updated edition brings Bruce Cumings's leading history of the modern era into the present. The small country, overshadowed in the imperial era, crammed against great powers during the Cold War, and divided and ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • Between Flexibility and Reliability

    Changing Planning Culture in China

    de Chiu-Yuan Wang ...
    The aim of this thesis is to provide an outline to address questions with regard to the transformation of planning in China that has occurred after the 1980s. The research is using “planning evolution” as the main research skeleton. The starting point is to investigate to what extent Chinese urban planning has developed after the opening up and other reforms under the state-led and market-driven ... Leer más

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  • A History of East Asia

    From the Origins of Civilization to the Twenty-First Century

    de Charles Holcombe ...
    Charles Holcombe begins by asking the question 'what is East Asia?' In the modern age, many of the features that made the region - now defined as including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam - distinct have been submerged by the effects of revolution, politics or globalization. Yet, as an ancient civilization, the region had both an historical and cultural coherence. This shared past is at the heart ... Leer más

    $36.99 USD

  • In Search of Paradise

    Middle-Class Living in a Chinese Metropolis

    de Li Zhang ...
    A new revolution in homeownership and living has been sweeping the booming cities of China. This time the main actors on the social stage are not peasants, migrants, or working-class proletariats but middle-class professionals and entrepreneurs in search of a private paradise in a society now dominated by consumerism. No longer seeking happiness and fulfillment through collective sacrifice and ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD