Mao's war against nature : politics and the environment in Revolutionary China /

"In clear and compelling prose, Judith Shapiro relates the great, untold story of China in the Mao years - the devastating impact of Maoist politics on China's environment. Under Mao, the traditional Chinese ideal of "Harmony between the Heavens and Humankind" was abrogated in fa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Shapiro, Judith, 1953-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Colección:Studies in environment and history.
Temas:
China.
1900-1999
Environmental policy > China > History > 20th century.
Environmental degradation.
Environmental degradation > China > History > 20th century.
Communism > history
Environment > politics
Environnement > Politique gouvernementale > Chine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Environnement > Dégradation > Chine > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Environnement > Dégradation.
SCIENCE > Environmental Science (see also Chemistry > Environmental)
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Environmental Policy.
Environmental policy.
Umweltpolitik
Geschichte
Milieubeleid.
Pollution > Chine > 20e siècle.
Politique de l'environnement > Chine > 20e siècle.
Développement économique > Aspect de l'environnement > Chine.
Nature > Effets de l'homme > Chine.
China
Chine > Environnement.
History.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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