China: its environment and history

Problems and perspectives

China's natural environment and early human settlement to 1000 BCE

States, wars, and farms: environmental change in ancient and early imperial China, 1000 BCE-300 CE

Deforesting the north and colonizing the south in the middle imperial period, 300-1300 CE

Empire and environment: China's borderlands, islands, and inner peripheries in the late imperial period, 1300-1800 CE

Environmental degradation in modern China, 1800-1949

Controlling nature in the People's Republic of China, 1949-present

China and its environment in world historical perspective.