UID:
almafu_9959238121302883
Format:
1 online resource (xvii, 287 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
1-107-12038-1
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1-281-71691-X
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9786611716912
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0-511-40973-7
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0-511-40840-4
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0-511-41027-1
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0-511-40709-2
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0-511-51206-6
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0-511-40882-X
Series Statement:
Studies in environment and history
Content:
Judith Shapiro, in clear and compelling prose, relates the great, untold story of the devastating impact of Chinese politics on China's environment during the Mao years. Maoist China provides an example of extreme human interference in the natural world in an era in which human relationships were also unusually distorted. 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. Mao's War Against Nature argues that the abuse of people and the abuse of nature are often linked. Shapiro's account, told in part through the voices of average Chinese citizens and officials who lived through and participated in some of the destructive campaigns, is both eye-opening and heartbreaking.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Introduction --
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Population, dams, and political repression: a story of two environmental disasters and the scientists who tried to avert them --
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Deforestation, famine, and utopian urgency: how the Great Leap Forward mobilized the Chinese people to attack nature --
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Grainfields in lakes and dogmatic uniformity: how "Learning from Dazhai" became an exercise in excess --
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War preparations and forcible relocations: how factories polluted the mountains and youths "opened" the frontiers --
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The legacy.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-78680-0
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-78150-7
Language:
English
URL:
Volltext
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URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511512063
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