In clear and compelling prose, Judith Shapiro relates the great, untold story of the devastating impact of Chinese politics on China's environment during the Mao years. Maoist China provides an example of extreme human interference in the natural world in an era in which human relationships were also unusually distorted. Under Mao, the traditional Chinese ideal of "harmony between heaven and humans" was abrogated in favor of Mao's insistence that "Man Must Conquer Nature." Mao and the Chinese Communist Party's "war" to bend the physical world to human will often had disastrous consequences both for human beings and the natural environment. Mao's War Against Nature argues that the abuse of people and the abuse of nature are often linked. Shapiro's account, told in part through the voices of average Chinese citizens and officials who lived through and participated in some of the destructive campaigns, is both eye-opening and heartbreaking. Judith Shapiro teaches environmental politics at American University in Washington, DC. She is co-author, with Liang Heng, of several well known books on China, including Son of the Revolution (Random House, 1984) and After the Nightmare (Knopf, 1986). She was one of the first Americans to work in China after the normalization of U.S.-China relations in 1979.
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In Mao’s War against Nature, Shapiro expressed her idea clear in the topic: Maoist “development”, if had made any progress, was established on war-like abuse of nature. Such violence was parallel to the violence people did to their fellowmen. According t...
評分In Mao’s War against Nature, Shapiro expressed her idea clear in the topic: Maoist “development”, if had made any progress, was established on war-like abuse of nature. Such violence was parallel to the violence people did to their fellowmen. According t...
評分In Mao’s War against Nature, Shapiro expressed her idea clear in the topic: Maoist “development”, if had made any progress, was established on war-like abuse of nature. Such violence was parallel to the violence people did to their fellowmen. According t...
評分In Mao’s War against Nature, Shapiro expressed her idea clear in the topic: Maoist “development”, if had made any progress, was established on war-like abuse of nature. Such violence was parallel to the violence people did to their fellowmen. According t...
評分In Mao’s War against Nature, Shapiro expressed her idea clear in the topic: Maoist “development”, if had made any progress, was established on war-like abuse of nature. Such violence was parallel to the violence people did to their fellowmen. According t...
圖書標籤: 環境史 海外中國研究 中國 環境 曆史 中國史研究 Environment 政治史
To be frank,事實還是挺有用的,但不喜歡這一類書的口吻。
評分如果讀者是外國人, 應該很好,但是對於我們,很多內容都是已經知道的,所以真正有價值的隻有一些分析比較。
評分已筆記。
評分four core themes: political repression, utopian urgency, dogmatic uniformity and state-ordered relocations; also we should pay attentions to the model of USSR, or what i call as the soviet modernity
評分傾嚮性不是問題,但是似乎不符環境史之名。
Mao's War Against Nature 2025 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載