1st Edition
Perspectives on Environmental History in East Asia Changes in the Land, Water and Air
Part I: Land Use
1. The Tale of Treasure Grass: Sweet Clover’s Introduction and Extension in China, 1942–1961
Guannan Gao and Micah Muscolino
2. Un-Occupied Spaces: Demilitarization and Land Use in the Kanto Plain
Adam Tompkins
3. Development and Indigenous Peoples in Colonial Forestry: Representation of Taiwanese and Korean Vegetation Change in the Japanese Empire
Taisaku Komei
Part II: Cropping and Fishing
4. Irrigation and Sequence in Agricultural Time in Shanxi since the Ming Dynasty
Chi-Ying Chang
5. The Importance of Local Customs to Fisheries in Early Modern Japanese Fishing Villages
Shingo Nakamura
6. Rationalizing the Ocean: Low-Level Radiation and Salmon Farming in the North Pacific
Kayo Nishi
7. Vibrant Matter(s), Fish and Fishing Histories in North Korea
Robert Winstanley-Chesters
8. The EU Food Reference Laboratory and Its Lessons for Taiwan and China
Der-Chin Horng
Part III: Air Quality and Environmental Risk
9. Lessons from the Sixth Naphtha Cracker Complex of Mai-Liao, Taiwan: Environmental Disputes and Health Risks
Hurng-jyuhn Wang
10. Energy-Saving Practices and Emission Reduction in Coastal Southeast China and Taiwan
Ts’ui-jung Liu
Biography
Ts’ui-jung Liu is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica. She gained her B.A. and M.A. from National Taiwan University and PhD from Harvard University. She was elected Academician of Academia Sinica in 1996. She served as Vice President of Academia Sinica between 2003 and 2009.
Micah Muscolino is Professor and Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China and The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond, 1938–1950. In addition to these books, he has published articles on China’s place in global environmental history, maritime connections between Mainland China and Taiwan, energy history, and the history of territorial disputes in the South China Sea. His current research focuses on the history of soil and water conservation in Northwest China’s Loess Plateau region from the 1940s to the 1970s.
