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Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China

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Description for Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China Hardback. Explores interactions between society and environment in China's most important marine fishery, the Zhoushan Archipelago off the coast of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, from its nineteenth - century expansion to the exhaustion of the most important fish species in the 1970s. Series: Harvard East Asian Monographs. Num Pages: 300 pages, 11 illustrations, 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1FPC; HBTB; KNAF; RNF. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 235 x 162 x 23. Weight in Grams: 616.

Among the environmental challenges facing us is alleviating the damage to marine ecosystems caused by pollution and overfishing. Coming to grips with contemporary problems, this book argues, depends on understanding how people have historically generated, perceived, and responded to environmental change. This work explores interactions between society and environment in China’s most important marine fishery, the Zhoushan Archipelago off the coast of Zhejiang and Jiangsu, from its nineteenth-­century expansion to the exhaustion of the most important fish species in the 1970s.

This history of Zhoushan’s fisheries illuminates long-term environmental processes and analyzes the intersections of local, regional, ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Harvard University, Asia Center United States
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Series
Harvard East Asian Monographs
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780674035980
SKU
V9780674035980
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About Micah S. Muscolino
Micah S. Muscolino is Assistant Professor of History, Georgetown University.

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