Introduction, Ts'ui-jung Liu
Part I: Environmental Thought and Policy
1. Scientific Curiosity in China and Europe: Natural History in the late Ming and the Eighteenth Century, Mark Elvin
2. Environmental Ethics and Aesthetics: The Laozi Revisited Yim-tze Kwong
3. Vision and Significance in Environmental Policy History, Susumu Kitagawa Part II: Utilizations of Land Resources
4. The Effect of Environment on the War between the Song and the Jin States, Jin Liu and Lei Kang
5. The Retreat of the Horse: The Manchus, Land Reclamation and Local Ecology in the Jianghan Plain (ca. 1700s-1850s), Yan Gao
6. Problems Concerning the Environmental History of the Chinese Loess Plateau, Kohei Matsunaga
7. The Zhaozhou Bazi Society in Yunnan: Historical Process in the Bazi Basin Environmental System during the Ming Period (1368-1643), Jianxiong Ma
8. Lashihai: Changing Environmental Protection of an Alpine Lake and Wetland, Shu-min Huang
9. Forest Landscape Change at the Shihmen Reservoir Catchment (2002-2007), Chih-Da Wu, Shih-Chun Candice Lung, Yung-Chung Chuang, and Jihn-Fa Jan
Part III: Ground Gained for Agriculture
10. Limitations and Adaptation: Environment and Technology in Jifu Region's Rice Cultivation during the Ming and Qing Periods (1368-1911), Xin-hao Du and Bo Ren
11. Historical Knowledge and the Response to Desertification: A Study of Agricultural Water Supply Technology in Eighteenth-Century Northwestern China, Shinobu Iguro
12. The Aesthetics and Politics of Chinese Horticulture in Late Qing Borderlands, Peter Lavelle
13. Maize Cultivation and Its Effect on Rocky Desertification: A Spatial Study of Guizhou Province (1736-1949), Zhaoqing Han
Part IV: Ground Lost: Disaster and Disease
14. Infant Mortality and Beriberi in Osaka City between the World Wars: Impact of the Mother's Diet on Infant Health, Emiko Higami and Kenichi Tomobe
15. Faith Healing and Vaccination against Smallpox in Nineteenth-Century Japan, Hiroshi Kawaguchi
16. Living Style Diseases: Parasite Infections and Kaoping Region's Rural Environment, Michael Shiyung Li
17. Ecodemics: Facing and Mediating the Risks from the Wild, Mika Mervioe
18. Beyond Uncertainty: Industrial Hazards and Class Actions in Taiwan and Japan, Paul Jobin
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