Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-lnqnp Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-27T12:10:53.583Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China By Ian M. Miller. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 296 pp. $40.00 (cloth).

Review products

Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China By Ian M. Miller. Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020. 296 pp. $40.00 (cloth).

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2021

Peter C. Perdue
Peter C. Perdue*
Affiliation:
Yale University, Email: peter.c.perdue@yale.edu
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content.
Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Book Review
Information
Journal of Chinese History 中國歷史學刊 , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , January 2022 , pp. 170 - 175
Check for updates
Copyright
Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Acemoglu, Daron and Robinson, James A., The Narrow Corridor : States, Societies, and the Fate of Liberty (New York: Penguin Press, 2019)Google Scholar; Ruskola, Teemu, Legal Orientalism: China, the United States, and Modern Law (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

2 Pomeranz, Kenneth, The Great Divergence: China, Europe, and the Making of the Modern World Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000)CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Glahn, Richard von, The Economic History of China from Antiquity to the Nineteenth Century (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3 Mark Elvin and Liu Ts'ui-jung, eds. (1995). Sediments of Time: Environment and Society in Chinese History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995); Elvin, Mark, The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004)Google Scholar; Marks, Robert B., China: Its Environment and History (Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2012)Google Scholar.

4 Ruth Mostern, Yu's Traces: Five Thousand Years of Sediment and Society Along China's Yellow River (New Haven: Yale University Press, forthcoming); Smith, Paul Jakov, Taxing Heaven's Storehouse: Horses, Bureaucrats, and the Destruction of the Sichuan Tea Industry, 1074–1224. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991)Google Scholar.

5 Zhang, Ling, The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China, 1048–1128. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

6 Yuan Julian Chen, “The Environmental Footprint of China's Song Dynasty Capital Kaifeng, 960–1127” (PhD diss., Yale, 2020).

7 Woodside, Alexander B., Lost Modernities: China, Vietnam, Korea, and the Hazards of World History (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

8 Meng, Zhang, “Financing Market-Oriented Reforestation: Securitization of Timberlands and Shareholding Practices in Southwest China, 1750–1900.” Late Imperial China 39.9 (2017), 109–51Google Scholar.

9 Perdue, Peter C., Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan, 1500–1850 (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1987)Google Scholar; Schoppa, Keith, Song Full of Tears: Nine Centuries of Chinese Life Around Xiang Lake (Boulder: Westview Press, 2002)Google Scholar.

10 Bian, He, Know your Remedies: Pharmacy and Culture In Early Modern China. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020)Google Scholar.