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China's effed up environmental past and how they're attempting to change the future.

Friday, February 22, 2008

Landmarks and Time-marks

Elvin, Chapter 1

Boxy China (p.4) looks like a confusing apartment complex, but does successfully make a point.

Page 7's discussion of the sale of children during economic crises is interesting; obviously it happened, but what was the result when nobody could afford to buy children?
Posted by Aelia at 7:08 PM
Labels: Elvin, Reading Response

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  • ▼  2008 (26)
    • ►  April (8)
    • ►  March (9)
    • ▼  February (9)
      • No More Plastic Bags?
      • Factory Migration
      • Humans v. Elephants: The Three Thousand Years War
      • Landmarks and Time-marks
      • The Retreat of the Elephants
      • No More Disposable Chopsticks?
      • New Natures
      • Night of the living dead fish
      • What Am I?

Course Readings & Textbooks

  • Elvin, Mark. The Retreat of the Elephants: an Environmental History of China. Yale University Press, 2004.
  • Schoppa, R. Keith. Song Full of Tears: Nine Centuries of Chinese Life at Xiang Lake. Yale University Press, 2002.
  • Weller, Robert. Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan. Cambridge University Press, 2006.

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