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Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China (Studies in Environment and History) Paperback - 2001
by Shapiro, Judith
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- Title Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China (Studies in Environment and History)
- Author Shapiro, Judith
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition New
- Pages 332
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK
- Date 2001-03-05
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated, Maps
- Bookseller's Inventory # Q-0521786800
- ISBN 9780521786805 / 0521786800
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.8 x 6 x 0.9 in (22.35 x 15.24 x 2.29 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Asian - Chinese
- Library of Congress subjects Environmental policy - China - History -, Environmental degradation - China - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00041420
- Dewey Decimal Code 363.700
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Summary
Judith Shapiro, in clear and compelling prose, relates the great, untold story of the devastating impact of Chinese politics on China's environment during the Mao years. Maoist China provides an example of extreme human interference in the natural world in an era in which human relationships were also unusually distorted. Under Mao, the traditional Chinese ideal of 'harmony between heaven and humans' was abrogated in favor of Mao's insistence that 'People Will Conquer Nature'. Mao and the Chinese Communist Party's 'war' to bend the physical world to human will often had disastrous consequences both for human beings and the natural environment. Mao's War Against Nature argues that the abuse of people and the abuse of nature are often linked. Shapiro's account, told in part through the voices of average Chinese citizens and officials who lived through and participated in some of the destructive campaigns, is both eye-opening and heartbreaking.
First line
Our story begins not in the physical world but in the political one - with a struggle among human beings.
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Citations
- New York Review of Books, 10/18/2001, Page 48
- Publishers Weekly, 04/02/2001, Page 58