The Cultivated Forest
People and Woodlands in Asian History
Published on 29. November 2022
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Paperback/Softback
274 pages
978-0-295-75090-3 (ISBN)
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Synthesizes multiple perspectives on Asian forests from early history to the near present
Forests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia brings together case studies from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Sumatra to explore continuities in the history of forest management across these regions as well as the distinctive qualities of human-forest relations within each context. With a general introduction to forest histories in East and Southeast Asia and a multidisciplinary set of authors, The Cultivated Forest constructs alternative lineages of forest knowledge that aim to transcend the frameworks imposed by colonial or national histories. Across these regions, forests were sites of exploitation, contestation, and ritual just as they were in Europe and America. This volume puts studies of Asian forests into conversation with global forest histories.
Forests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia brings together case studies from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Sumatra to explore continuities in the history of forest management across these regions as well as the distinctive qualities of human-forest relations within each context. With a general introduction to forest histories in East and Southeast Asia and a multidisciplinary set of authors, The Cultivated Forest constructs alternative lineages of forest knowledge that aim to transcend the frameworks imposed by colonial or national histories. Across these regions, forests were sites of exploitation, contestation, and ritual just as they were in Europe and America. This volume puts studies of Asian forests into conversation with global forest histories.
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"...a superb array of essays makes this fascinating collection invaluable. The rubric of "cultivated forests" is enormously productive in helping us understand that human societies never developed separately from trees but in intimate association with them, shaping forests and being shaped in return."(Seoul Journal of Korean Studies) "Challenge[s] readers to consider how plant-centered studies enrich and complicate narratives of humans in East and Southeast Asian environments, societies, and industries."
(Journal of Asian Studies)
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Language
English
Place of publication
Seattle
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
6 b&w illus., 4 maps, 1 chart, 3 tables
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 153 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
382 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-295-75090-3 (9780295750903)
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People and Woodlands in Asian History
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Ian M. Miller is assistant professor of history at St. John's University. He is author of Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. Bradley Camp Davis is associate professor of history at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is author of Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands. Brian Lander is assistant professor of history and environment and society at Brown University. He is author of The King's Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire. John S. Lee is assistant professor of East Asian history at Durham University. Contributors: David A. Bello, John Elijah Bender, Brian Collins, Keala Hagmann, Stevan Harrell, Tom Hinckley, Larissa Pitts, Amanda Schmidt, Faizah Zakaria, and Meng Zhang
Content
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Cultivated Forest / Ian M. Miller, Bradley Camp Davis, and John S. Lee ix
Chapter 1. Deforestation in Early China: How People Adapted to Wood Scarcity / Brian Lander
Chapter 2. Forestry by Contract: Knowledge, Ownership, and the Written Record in South China / Ian M. Miller
Chapter 3. Fighting over Nature: Resource Disputes in Central Japan during an Age of Instability, 1475-1635 / John Elijah Bender
Chapter 4. The Sylvan Local: The Pine Protection Kye in Late Choson Korea, 1700-1900 / John S. Lee
Chapter 5. Frontier Timber in Southwest China: Market, Empire, and Identity / Meng Zhang
Chapter 6. Splintered Habitats: The Fragmentation of Ecotone Northern China's Imperial Woodland Complexes / David A. Bello
Chapter 7. Camphor, Celluloid, and Colonialism: The Dutch East Indies and Colonial Taiwan in Comparative Perspective / Faizah Zakaria
Chapter 8. Modern Trees for Backward China: Arbor Day and the Struggle against Ecological "Backwardness" in Republican China, 1911-1937 / Larissa Pitts
Chapter 9. Sunny Slopes Are Good for Grain, Shady Slopes Are Good for Trees: Nuosu Yi Agroforestry in Southwestern Sichuan / Stevan Harrell, Amanda H. Schmidt, Brian D. Collins, R. Keala Hagmann, and Thomas M. Hinckley
Glossaries of Plant Names and Non-Roman
Characters
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index
Introduction: The Cultivated Forest / Ian M. Miller, Bradley Camp Davis, and John S. Lee ix
Chapter 1. Deforestation in Early China: How People Adapted to Wood Scarcity / Brian Lander
Chapter 2. Forestry by Contract: Knowledge, Ownership, and the Written Record in South China / Ian M. Miller
Chapter 3. Fighting over Nature: Resource Disputes in Central Japan during an Age of Instability, 1475-1635 / John Elijah Bender
Chapter 4. The Sylvan Local: The Pine Protection Kye in Late Choson Korea, 1700-1900 / John S. Lee
Chapter 5. Frontier Timber in Southwest China: Market, Empire, and Identity / Meng Zhang
Chapter 6. Splintered Habitats: The Fragmentation of Ecotone Northern China's Imperial Woodland Complexes / David A. Bello
Chapter 7. Camphor, Celluloid, and Colonialism: The Dutch East Indies and Colonial Taiwan in Comparative Perspective / Faizah Zakaria
Chapter 8. Modern Trees for Backward China: Arbor Day and the Struggle against Ecological "Backwardness" in Republican China, 1911-1937 / Larissa Pitts
Chapter 9. Sunny Slopes Are Good for Grain, Shady Slopes Are Good for Trees: Nuosu Yi Agroforestry in Southwestern Sichuan / Stevan Harrell, Amanda H. Schmidt, Brian D. Collins, R. Keala Hagmann, and Thomas M. Hinckley
Glossaries of Plant Names and Non-Roman
Characters
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index