Ts'ui-jung Liu is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

• Introduction Part I: Environmental Thought and Policy 1. Scientific Curiosity in China and Europe: Natural History in the late Ming and the Eighteenth Century 2. Environmental Ethics and Aesthetics: The Laozi Revisited 3. Vision and Significance in Environmental Policy History Part II: Utilizations of Land Resources 4. The Effect of Environment on the War between the Song and the Jin States 5. The Retreat of the Horse: The Manchus, Land Reclamation and Local Ecology in the Jianghan Plain (ca. 1700s-1850s) 6. Problems Concerning the Environmental History of the Chinese Loess Plateau 7. The Zhaozhou Bazi Society in Yunnan: Historical Process in the Bazi Basin Environmental System during the Ming Period (1368-1643) 8. Lashihai: Changing Environmental Protection of an Alpine Lake and Wetland 9. Forest Landscape Change at the Shihmen Reservoir Catchment (2002-2007) Part III: Ground Gained for Agriculture 10. Limitations and Adaptation: Environment and Technology in Jifu Region’s Rice Cultivation during the Ming and Qing Periods (1368-1911) 11. Historical Knowledge and the Response to Desertification: A Study of Agricultural Water Supply Technology in Eighteenth–Century Northwestern China 12. The Aesthetics and Politics of Chinese Horticulture in Late Qing Borderlands 13. Maize Cultivation and Its Effect on Rocky Desertification: A Spatial Study of Guizhou Province (1736-1949) Part IV: Ground Lost: Disaster and Disease 14. Infant Mortality and Beriberi in Osaka City between the World Wars: Impact of the Mother’s Diet on Infant Health 15. Faith Healing and Vaccination against Smallpox in Nineteenth-Century Japan 16. Living Style Diseases: Parasite Infections and Kaoping Region’s Rural Environment 17. Ecodemics: Facing and Mediating the Risks from the Wild 18. Beyond Uncertainty: Industrial Hazards and Class Actions in Taiwan and Japan

"The virtue of this collection is that it broadens East Asian history beyond national borders. Summing Up: Recommended" – F.N Egerton, University of Wisconsin in CHOICE

Ts'ui-jung Liu is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

• Introduction Part I: Environmental Thought and Policy 1. Scientific Curiosity in China and Europe: Natural History in the late Ming and the Eighteenth Century 2. Environmental Ethics and Aesthetics: The Laozi Revisited 3. Vision and Significance in Environmental Policy History Part II: Utilizations of Land Resources 4. The Effect of Environment on the War between the Song and the Jin States 5. The Retreat of the Horse: The Manchus, Land Reclamation and Local Ecology in the Jianghan Plain (ca. 1700s-1850s) 6. Problems Concerning the Environmental History of the Chinese Loess Plateau 7. The Zhaozhou Bazi Society in Yunnan: Historical Process in the Bazi Basin Environmental System during the Ming Period (1368-1643) 8. Lashihai: Changing Environmental Protection of an Alpine Lake and Wetland 9. Forest Landscape Change at the Shihmen Reservoir Catchment (2002-2007) Part III: Ground Gained for Agriculture 10. Limitations and Adaptation: Environment and Technology in Jifu Region’s Rice Cultivation during the Ming and Qing Periods (1368-1911) 11. Historical Knowledge and the Response to Desertification: A Study of Agricultural Water Supply Technology in Eighteenth–Century Northwestern China 12. The Aesthetics and Politics of Chinese Horticulture in Late Qing Borderlands 13. Maize Cultivation and Its Effect on Rocky Desertification: A Spatial Study of Guizhou Province (1736-1949) Part IV: Ground Lost: Disaster and Disease 14. Infant Mortality and Beriberi in Osaka City between the World Wars: Impact of the Mother’s Diet on Infant Health 15. Faith Healing and Vaccination against Smallpox in Nineteenth-Century Japan 16. Living Style Diseases: Parasite Infections and Kaoping Region’s Rural Environment 17. Ecodemics: Facing and Mediating the Risks from the Wild 18. Beyond Uncertainty: Industrial Hazards and Class Actions in Taiwan and Japan

"The virtue of this collection is that it broadens East Asian history beyond national borders. Summing Up: Recommended" – F.N Egerton, University of Wisconsin in CHOICE

Ts'ui-jung Liu is a Distinguished Visiting Fellow in the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.

• Introduction Part I: Environmental Thought and Policy 1. Scientific Curiosity in China and Europe: Natural History in the late Ming and the Eighteenth Century 2. Environmental Ethics and Aesthetics: The Laozi Revisited 3. Vision and Significance in Environmental Policy History Part II: Utilizations of Land Resources 4. The Effect of Environment on the War between the Song and the Jin States 5. The Retreat of the Horse: The Manchus, Land Reclamation and Local Ecology in the Jianghan Plain (ca. 1700s-1850s) 6. Problems Concerning the Environmental History of the Chinese Loess Plateau 7. The Zhaozhou Bazi Society in Yunnan: Historical Process in the Bazi Basin Environmental System during the Ming Period (1368-1643) 8. Lashihai: Changing Environmental Protection of an Alpine Lake and Wetland 9. Forest Landscape Change at the Shihmen Reservoir Catchment (2002-2007) Part III: Ground Gained for Agriculture 10. Limitations and Adaptation: Environment and Technology in Jifu Region’s Rice Cultivation during the Ming and Qing Periods (1368-1911) 11. Historical Knowledge and the Response to Desertification: A Study of Agricultural Water Supply Technology in Eighteenth–Century Northwestern China 12. The Aesthetics and Politics of Chinese Horticulture in Late Qing Borderlands 13. Maize Cultivation and Its Effect on Rocky Desertification: A Spatial Study of Guizhou Province (1736-1949) Part IV: Ground Lost: Disaster and Disease 14. Infant Mortality and Beriberi in Osaka City between the World Wars: Impact of the Mother’s Diet on Infant Health 15. Faith Healing and Vaccination against Smallpox in Nineteenth-Century Japan 16. Living Style Diseases: Parasite Infections and Kaoping Region’s Rural Environment 17. Ecodemics: Facing and Mediating the Risks from the Wild 18. Beyond Uncertainty: Industrial Hazards and Class Actions in Taiwan and Japan

"The virtue of this collection is that it broadens East Asian history beyond national borders. Summing Up: Recommended" – F.N Egerton, University of Wisconsin in CHOICE