Kommande
bokomslag Contested Environmentalisms
Historia

Contested Environmentalisms

Cheng Li

Inbunden

1379:-

Funktionen begränsas av dina webbläsarinställningar (t.ex. privat läge).

  • 294 sidor
  • 2025
For decades, tree planting and forestry have been pivotal to Chinese environmentalism. During the Mao era, while forests were razed to fuel rapid increases in industrial production, the "Greening the Motherland" campaign promoted conservationist tree-planting nationwide. Contested Environmentalisms explores the seemingly contradictory rhetoric and desires of Chinese conservation from the early twentieth century through to the present. Drawing on literary, cinematic, scientific, archival, and digital media sources, Cheng Li investigates the emergence, evolution, and devolution of Chinese conservationist ideas. Combining literary, historical, and environmental studies approaches, he shows that these ideas acquired their value and assumed their power precisely because of their malleability and adaptability. Li historicizes authoritarian environmentalism and probes the global-local dynamics underlying conservationist ideas that energize environmental impulses in China. Examining ethnic borderlands, the Beijing political center, and China's growth on the world stage, this book demonstrates the strength of Chinese environmentalism to adapt and survive through tumultuous change lies in what seems to be a weakness: its inconsistency and contestation.
  • Författare: Cheng Li
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9781503640306
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 294
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2025-01-21
  • Förlag: Stanford University Press