Mao's War against Nature
Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China (Studies in Environment and History)
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Word Count
76,500 words, Guess
Page Count
306 pages
Physical Format
Hardcover
Identifiers
- Internet Archivemaoswaragainstna00shap
- Internet Archivemaoswaragainstna00shap_972
- Internet Archivemaoswaragainstna0000shap
- Internet Archivemaoswaragainstna00shap_618
- ISBN-100521781507
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- ISBN-139780521781503
- LibraryThing1112689
- Goodreads371603
- Library of Congress Control Number00041420
- OCLC Control Number236161979
- OCLC Control Number44167580
- Better World Books9780521781503
- Open LibraryOL7753545M
Classifications
- LCCGE190.C6 S48 2001
- LCCGE190.C6 S48 2001eb
- LCCGE 190 C6 S48 2001
Description
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 Sentence
Our story begins not in the physical world but in the political one - with a struggle among human beings.
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- Mao's War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China (Studies in Environment and History)
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