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Author:   Ts'ui-jung Liu (Academia Sinica, Taiwan) ,  Micah Muscolino
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.540kg
ISBN:  

9780367681234

ISBN 10:   0367681234
Pages:   238
Publication Date:   29 August 2022
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Part I: Land Use 1. The Tale of Treasure Grass: Sweet Clover’s Introduction and Extension in China, 1942–1961 2. Un-Occupied Spaces: Demilitarization and Land Use in the Kanto Plain 3. Development and Indigenous Peoples in Colonial Forestry: Representation of Taiwanese and Korean Vegetation Change in the Japanese Empire Part II: Cropping and Fishing 4. Irrigation and Sequence in Agricultural Time in Shanxi since the Ming Dynasty 5. The Importance of Local Customs to Fisheries in Early Modern Japanese Fishing Villages 6. Rationalizing the Ocean: Low-Level Radiation and Salmon Farming in the North Pacific 7. Vibrant Matter(s), Fish and Fishing Histories in North Korea 8. The EU Food Reference Laboratory and Its Lessons for Taiwan and China Part III: Air Quality and Environmental Risk 9. Lessons from the Sixth Naphtha Cracker Complex of Mai-Liao, Taiwan: Environmental Disputes and Health Risks 10. Energy-Saving Practices and Emission Reduction in Coastal Southeast China and Taiwan

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Ts’ui-jung Liu is Adjunct Research Fellow at the Institute of Taiwan History, Academia Sinica. She gained her B.A. and M.A. from National Taiwan University and PhD from Harvard University. She was elected Academician of Academia Sinica in 1996. She served as Vice President of Academia Sinica between 2003 and 2009. Micah Muscolino is Professor and Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China and The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond, 1938–1950. In addition to these books, he has published articles on China’s place in global environmental history, maritime connections between Mainland China and Taiwan, energy history, and the history of territorial disputes in the South China Sea. His current research focuses on the history of soil and water conservation in Northwest China’s Loess Plateau region from the 1940s to the 1970s.

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