Contested Environmentalisms: Trees and the Making of Modern China

by Cheng Li

For decades, tree planting and forestry have been pivotal to Chinese environmentalism. During the Mao era, while forests were razed to fuel rapid increases in industrial production, the "Greening the Motherland" campaign promoted conservationist tree-planting nationwide. Contested Environmentalisms explores the seemingly contradictory rhetoric and desires of Chinese conservation from the early twentieth century through to the present.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503640302
• ISBN13: 9781503640306
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 294 Pages