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HIST 295 - Chinese Earth and Environment


Semester Offered: Second Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4SS, CD

From the Great Wall to the Three Gorges Dam, China has seen many of history’s most audacious projects to transform the environment to fit human needs, not least of which the formation of the enduring cultural and ecological space of China itself.  At the same time, critics within the tradition have produced trenchant critiques of human autonomy and environmental utilitarianism.  This environmental history course will introduce students to historical human ecology in continental East Asia.  Topics will include: hydraulic civilization and its discontents, “hard” and “soft” frontiers, ecological imperialism, the politics of landscape, and the green revolution in “Red” China.  

Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: J. Watson

Cross List Information: EAST 295


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