Ian M. Miller is assistant professor of history at St. John’s University. He is author of Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. Bradley Camp Davis is associate professor of history at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is author of Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands. Brian Lander is assistant professor of history and environment and society at Brown University. He is author of The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire. John S. Lee is assistant professor of East Asian history at Durham University. Contributors: David A. Bello, John Elijah Bender, Brian Collins, Keala Hagmann, Stevan Harrell, Tom Hinckley, Larissa Pitts, Amanda Schmidt, Faizah Zakaria, and Meng Zhang

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Cultivated Forest / Ian M. Miller, Bradley Camp Davis, and John S. Lee ixChapter 1. Deforestation in Early China: How People Adapted to Wood Scarcity / Brian LanderChapter 2. Forestry by Contract: Knowledge, Ownership, and the Written Record in South China / Ian M. MillerChapter 3. Fighting over Nature: Resource Disputes in Central Japan during an Age of Instability, 1475–1635 / John Elijah BenderChapter 4. The Sylvan Local: The Pine Protection Kye in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1700–1900 / John S. LeeChapter 5. Frontier Timber in Southwest China: Market, Empire, and Identity / Meng ZhangChapter 6. Splintered Habitats: The Fragmentation of Ecotone Northern China’s Imperial Woodland Complexes / David A. BelloChapter 7. Camphor, Celluloid, and Colonialism: The Dutch East Indies and Colonial Taiwan in Comparative Perspective / Faizah ZakariaChapter 8. Modern Trees for Backward China: Arbor Day and the Struggle against Ecological "Backwardness" in Republican China, 1911–1937 / Larissa PittsChapter 9. Sunny Slopes Are Good for Grain, Shady Slopes Are Good for Trees: Nuosu Yi Agroforestry in Southwestern Sichuan / Stevan Harrell, Amanda H. Schmidt, Brian D. Collins, R. Keala Hagmann, and Thomas M. HinckleyGlossaries of Plant Names and Non-RomanCharactersBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

"Challenge[s] readers to consider how plant-centered studies enrich and complicate narratives of humans in East and Southeast Asian environments, societies, and industries."

Ian M. Miller is assistant professor of history at St. John’s University. He is author of Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. Bradley Camp Davis is associate professor of history at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is author of Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands. Brian Lander is assistant professor of history and environment and society at Brown University. He is author of The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire. John S. Lee is assistant professor of East Asian history at Durham University. Contributors: David A. Bello, John Elijah Bender, Brian Collins, Keala Hagmann, Stevan Harrell, Tom Hinckley, Larissa Pitts, Amanda Schmidt, Faizah Zakaria, and Meng Zhang

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Cultivated Forest / Ian M. Miller, Bradley Camp Davis, and John S. Lee ixChapter 1. Deforestation in Early China: How People Adapted to Wood Scarcity / Brian LanderChapter 2. Forestry by Contract: Knowledge, Ownership, and the Written Record in South China / Ian M. MillerChapter 3. Fighting over Nature: Resource Disputes in Central Japan during an Age of Instability, 1475–1635 / John Elijah BenderChapter 4. The Sylvan Local: The Pine Protection Kye in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1700–1900 / John S. LeeChapter 5. Frontier Timber in Southwest China: Market, Empire, and Identity / Meng ZhangChapter 6. Splintered Habitats: The Fragmentation of Ecotone Northern China’s Imperial Woodland Complexes / David A. BelloChapter 7. Camphor, Celluloid, and Colonialism: The Dutch East Indies and Colonial Taiwan in Comparative Perspective / Faizah ZakariaChapter 8. Modern Trees for Backward China: Arbor Day and the Struggle against Ecological "Backwardness" in Republican China, 1911–1937 / Larissa PittsChapter 9. Sunny Slopes Are Good for Grain, Shady Slopes Are Good for Trees: Nuosu Yi Agroforestry in Southwestern Sichuan / Stevan Harrell, Amanda H. Schmidt, Brian D. Collins, R. Keala Hagmann, and Thomas M. HinckleyGlossaries of Plant Names and Non-RomanCharactersBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

"Challenge[s] readers to consider how plant-centered studies enrich and complicate narratives of humans in East and Southeast Asian environments, societies, and industries."

Ian M. Miller is assistant professor of history at St. John’s University. He is author of Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. Bradley Camp Davis is associate professor of history at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is author of Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands. Brian Lander is assistant professor of history and environment and society at Brown University. He is author of The King’s Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire. John S. Lee is assistant professor of East Asian history at Durham University. Contributors: David A. Bello, John Elijah Bender, Brian Collins, Keala Hagmann, Stevan Harrell, Tom Hinckley, Larissa Pitts, Amanda Schmidt, Faizah Zakaria, and Meng Zhang

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Cultivated Forest / Ian M. Miller, Bradley Camp Davis, and John S. Lee ixChapter 1. Deforestation in Early China: How People Adapted to Wood Scarcity / Brian LanderChapter 2. Forestry by Contract: Knowledge, Ownership, and the Written Record in South China / Ian M. MillerChapter 3. Fighting over Nature: Resource Disputes in Central Japan during an Age of Instability, 1475–1635 / John Elijah BenderChapter 4. The Sylvan Local: The Pine Protection Kye in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1700–1900 / John S. LeeChapter 5. Frontier Timber in Southwest China: Market, Empire, and Identity / Meng ZhangChapter 6. Splintered Habitats: The Fragmentation of Ecotone Northern China’s Imperial Woodland Complexes / David A. BelloChapter 7. Camphor, Celluloid, and Colonialism: The Dutch East Indies and Colonial Taiwan in Comparative Perspective / Faizah ZakariaChapter 8. Modern Trees for Backward China: Arbor Day and the Struggle against Ecological "Backwardness" in Republican China, 1911–1937 / Larissa PittsChapter 9. Sunny Slopes Are Good for Grain, Shady Slopes Are Good for Trees: Nuosu Yi Agroforestry in Southwestern Sichuan / Stevan Harrell, Amanda H. Schmidt, Brian D. Collins, R. Keala Hagmann, and Thomas M. HinckleyGlossaries of Plant Names and Non-RomanCharactersBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex

"Challenge[s] readers to consider how plant-centered studies enrich and complicate narratives of humans in East and Southeast Asian environments, societies, and industries."