Timber and forestry in Qing China : sustaining the market / Meng Zhang.

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"In the Qing period (1644-1912), China's population tripled, and the flurry of new development generated unprecedented demand for timber. Standard environmental histories have often depicted this as an era of reckless deforestation, akin to the resource misuse that devastated European forests at the...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Culture, place, and nature.
Main Author: Zhang, Meng (History professor) (Author)
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2021]
Series:Culture, place, and nature.
Subjects:
Timber trade > China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
Timber > China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
Deforestation > China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
Sustainable development > China > History > Qing dynasty, 1644-1912.
Deforestation.
Qing Dynasty (China)
Sustainable development.
Timber.
China.
1644-1912
History.
Genre:
History.
Physical Description:xxi, 255 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm.
Format: Book

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