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Author Shapiro, Judith, 1953-

Title Mao's war against nature : politics and the environment in Revolutionary China / Judith Shapiro.

Publication Info. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 287 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Studies in environment and history
Studies in environment and history.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-268) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Population, dams, and political repression: a story of two environmental disasters and the scientists who tried to avert them -- Deforestation, famine, and utopian urgency: how the Great Leap Forward mobilized the Chinese people to attack nature -- Grainfields in lakes and dogmatic uniformity: how "Learning from Dazhai" became an exercise in excess -- War preparations and forcible relocations: how factories polluted the mountains and youths "opened" the frontiers -- Legacy.
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Subject Environmental policy -- China -- History -- 20th century.
Environmental policy.
China.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Environmental degradation.
Environmental degradation.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Shapiro, Judith, 1953- Mao's war against nature. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001 0521781507 9780521781503 (DLC) 00041420 (OCoLC)44167580
ISBN 9780511410277 (electronic book)
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0521781507 (Cloth)
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9780521781503 (hardback)
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