Local Realities and Environmental Changes in the History of East Asia (Hardcover)

Introduction, Ts’ui-Jung Liu Part I Thought And Attitude Toward Nature 1. Listening To Bamboo: The Chinese Literati’s Attitude And Behavior Toward Sounds Of The Nature In Pre-Modern Era, Lihua Wang 2. Livestock And The "Industrious Revolution" In Tokugawa Japan,1603-1868, Satoshi Murayama Part II Case Studies Of Mainland China And Taiwan 3. Water Management And The Legitimization Of The Yongle Reign, 1403-1424: An Approach Of Political Ecology, Cho-Ying Li 4. Media And The Environment In Treaty-Port China: The "Woosung Bar" Controversy In The 1870s, Marlon Zhu 5. Disputes On The Expansion Project Of Dahaizi Reservoir In 1950s, Xinjiang, China, Li Zhang And Dongkai Yan 6. Going Green From Industrial Dream?: Community-Ngos Cooperation Among Indigenous Communities In Hualien, Taiwan, Chun-Chieh Chi Part III Case Studies Of Japan 7. Pyroclastic Rivers: The Hoei Fuji Eruption (1707), Beatrice M. Bodart-Bailey 8. Across The Tama: Bridges And Roads, Rivers And Rocks, M. William Steele