作者:
Mark Elvin 出版社: Yale University Press 副标题: An Environmental History of China 出版年: 2004-3-10 页数: 592 定价: GBP 25.00 装帧: Hardcover ISBN: 9780300101119
This landmark account of China’s environmental history, written by an internationally pre-eminent China specialist, "should stand for decades to come as a unique statement on motives, processes, perceptions and consequences of environmental change in China.” (Jennifer L. Mnookin, American Scientist)
This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand year...
This landmark account of China’s environmental history, written by an internationally pre-eminent China specialist, "should stand for decades to come as a unique statement on motives, processes, perceptions and consequences of environmental change in China.” (Jennifer L. Mnookin, American Scientist)
This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand years for which there are written records. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of the Chinese people toward their environment and their landscape.
Elvin chronicles the spread of the Chinese style of farming that eliminated the habitat of the elephants that populated the country alongside much of its original wildlife; the destruction of most of the forests; the impact of war on the environmental transformation of the landscape; and the re-engineering of the countryside through water-control systems, some of gigantic size. He documents the histories of three contrasting localities within China to show how ecological dynamics defined the lives of the inhabitants. And he shows that China in the eighteenth century, on the eve of the modern era, was probably more environmentally degraded than northwestern Europe around this time.
Indispensable for its new perspective on long-term Chinese history and its explanation of the roots of China’s present-day environmental crisis, this book opens a door into the Chinese past.
Mark Elvin is professor of Chinese history at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. Author of The Pattern of the Chinese Past and other works, he has taught at Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, and Heidelberg, and been a visiting research fellow at Harvard.
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List of Illustrations p. viii
Acknowledgments p. ix
Permissions p. xiii
Conventions p. xv
Introductory Remarks p. xvii
Patterns p. 1
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List of Illustrations p. viii
Acknowledgments p. ix
Permissions p. xiii
Conventions p. xv
Introductory Remarks p. xvii
Patterns p. 1
Landmarks and Time-marks p. 3
Humans v. Elephants: The Three Thousand Years War p. 9
The Great Deforestation: An Overview p. 19
The Great Deforestation: Regions and Species p. 40
War and the Logic of Short-term Advantage p. 86
Water and the Costs of System Sustainability p. 115
Particularities p. 165
Richness to Riches: The Story of Jiaxing p. 167
Chinese Colonialism: Guizhou and the Miao p. 216
The Riddle of Longevity: Why Zunhua? p. 273
Perceptions p. 319
Nature as Revelation p. 321
Science and Superfauna p. 369
Imperial Dogma and Personal Perspectives p. 413
Concluding Remarks p. 454
Notes p. 472
Bibliography p. 530
Index p. 548
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It must be remembered: fields end freedom. Whatever the astonishing subsequent achievements of civilization, it had a little recognized price: humanity itself became one of its own domesticated species. We enslaved ourselves to conquer. (查看原文)
据说，大象是地球上唯一没有天敌的动物，除了人类。众所周知，大象生活在热带非洲、亚洲草原与森林中。但伊懋可（Mark Elvin）在其著作《大象的退却：一部中国环境史》（The Retreat of the Elephants: An Environmental History of China）中提出，4000年前（2003年左右起计算...
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0 有用 Phyllis 2015-04-03 09:56:40
Hm. I almost forgot what this book was about but I do remember the person who assigned it to me. An infinitely lovely person.
0 有用 sanbilly 2010-01-17 04:47:17
这本书注定会成为中国环境史的经典，但是这位老先生的文笔太艰深了。
0 有用 小嘎豆 2018-02-01 01:27:50
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0 有用 一颗苹果🍎 2021-08-11 18:09:56
读了一半买了中文版来看依然觉得读起来很痛苦。。。
0 有用 跳余烬者 2022-02-27 23:18:53
在人类世读这本书，别有一番滋味。本书将农业、人口、技术与环境问题联系起来探讨，又创新地运用文学文献进行论述（中国古诗词中对于自然生态的描写不少，确实能为研究带来一些参考，但本书有滥用之嫌疑，不过对我个人阅读体验上却是加分项，哈哈！）最后一部分将中国的环境演变投射到原始工业化的框架内，突出这本书在当下社会内卷与全球环境问题上一些具有现实参考意义的启示。
0 有用 一颗苹果🍎 2021-08-11 18:09:56
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0 有用 駄法螺の徒然 2017-04-13 05:48:59
旁征博引，笔触宏大。但是读起来略觉得有点过了。主题很清楚，就是中国人与其自然环境的关系，对它的改造及其背后的动因。选了三个地方，不知道代表性如何。从本质上讲，一切人类活动都与自然争利。还能体会到我们中国人爱种地，干扰我们种地我们是会变得很凶的。总之，视角有意思，蛮好玩的作品。