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

  • Shapiro, Judith, 1953-
Date:
2001
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Publication/Creation

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.

Physical description

xvii, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.

Bibliographic information

Includes index and bibliography: p. 253-268.

Contents

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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    History of Medicine
    AOX.T.251
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  • 0521781507
  • 0521786800