Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 1 Discovering nature; 2 Night of the living dead fish; 3 New natures; 4 Stories of stone; 5 Garbage wars and spiritual environments; 6 On"policies from above and countermeasures from below"; 7 Globals and locals; Chinese characters; Bibliography; Index
Summary
A description of the extraordinary transformations which have taken place in Chinese and Taiwanese responses to the environment across the twentieth century. The comparison between China and Taiwan reveals surprising similarities, showing how globalization and shared cultural traditions have outweighed political differences in shaping their environments
