Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China

by Micah S. Muscolino

State-led conservation transformed Gansu's landscape--rural communities bore the costs

From the 1940s to the 1960s, soil and water conservation measures transformed both the arid, erosion-prone environment of China's Loess Plateau and the lives of rural people. Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People explores how the Chinese state imposed the burden of conservation on rural communities and how the communities navigated...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295753986
• ISBN13: 9780295753980
• Release Date: July 2025
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 280 Pages