Product Description: This book, inspired by the sociologist Gunter Dux, co-edited by the historian Hans Ulrich Vogel, and introduced by Mark Elvin, is a collective intellectual masterpiece written by some of the world s leading scholars. Its purpose is to illuminate premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by comparing them with their counterpart traditions in Europe...read more

Product Description: The first comprehensive survey of Chinese environmental history, this book crystallizes a new field of scholarship that studies the creation of distinct environments as a result of the interaction of human social systems with the natural world...read more

Product Description: This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand years for which there are written records. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of the Chinese people toward their environment and their landscape...read more

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A revised edition of a visual survey of China's history, geography, and civilization includes 204 full-color photographs, fifty-eight maps, an updated bibliography, and new sections on China's environment, Taiwan, and Chinese emigration. 30,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This book is an innovative attempt to convey something of how it has felt since the early nineteenth century to be Chinese. It is based on the assumption that people live their lives in stories, or as if they themselves were in stories—stories that are largely a social inheritance but are also in some measure self-created or at least continually adapted, edited, or extended...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: These essays are comparative studies of developments in China in the context of contemporaneous developments in Europe. Features in China's history, society, geography, and developments in technology, industry, demography and literature are scrutinised and provide insights into developments in China spanning a thousand years...read more

Analyzes the social and economic factors that enabled the Chinese Empire to remain united as other empires collapsed and explores the conditions that shaped the technical revolution of the fourteenth century and the period of stagnation that followed