Mao's War against Nature : Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Studies in Environment and History
ISBN-10
0521786800
ISBN-13
9780521786805
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 5th, 2001
Print length
332 Pages
Weight
514 grams
Dimensions
23.00 x 15.20 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
Asian historyPostwar 20th century history, from c 1945 to c 2000The environment
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Under Mao, the traditional Chinese ideal of 'harmony between heaven and humans' was abrogated in favor of Mao's insistence that 'people will 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.
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