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Meng Zhang

Timber and Forestry in Qing China

Sustaining the Market

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In the Qing period (1644-1912), China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation, akin to the resource misuse that devastated European forests at the same time. This comprehensive new study shows that the reality was more complex: as old-growth forests were cut down, new economic arrangements emerged to develop renewable timber resources.Historian Meng Zhang traces the trade routes that connected population centers of the Lower Yangzi Delta to timber supplies on China's southwestern frontier. Sh… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-0-295-74888-7
  • EAN: 9780295748887
  • Produktnummer: 36747084
  • Verlag: University of Washington Press
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 264 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Abbildungen: 4 b&w illus., 5 charts, 3 maps, 8 tables

Über den Autor


Meng Zhang is assistant professor of history at Loyola Marymount University.

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