Mao's War against Nature
Subtitle: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China (Studies in Environment and History)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: March 5, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521781503
Subjects: Asian / Middle Eastern history: postwar, from c 1945 -; The Environment; Postwar period, 1945 to c 2000; Far East; Environmental Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; China; History; Asia - China; History & Theory - Radical Thought; Environmental policy--China--History--20th ce; Environmental policy--China--History--20th century; History / Modern / 20th Century; History-Asia - China; Science-Environmental Science; 20th century; Environmental degradation; Environmental policy
First sentence: Our story begins not in the physical world but in the political one - with a struggle among human beings.