Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia critically examines modernization's long-term environmental history. It suggests new frameworks for understanding as inter-related processes environmental, social, and economic change across China and Japan.

Demonstrates the ways in which modernisation and development are intrinsically linked to the physical environment

Introduction: Environment, Modernization and Development in East Asia: Perspectives from Environmental History; James Beattie and Ts'ui-jung Liu.- PART I: MODERNIZATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES.- 1. Agriculture, Population and Environment in Late Imperial China; E. N. Anderson.- 2. Chinese Migrants and Colonial Development in the British Empire, 1860s-1920s: A Case Study; James Beattie.- PART II: WATERSCAPES: DEVELOPMENT, MODERNIZATION AND SOCIETY.- 3. Dike-based Communities between Water and Sand: The Sand-land Environmental System in Dongchong, South China, 1720s-1980s; Jianxiong Ma.- 4. Waterscape and Social Transformations in Southern Taiwan: The Damming of Mudan Creek; Shao-hua Liu and Shu-min Huang.- PART III: LANDSCAPE COMMODIFICATION.- 5. The Role of the Shin Nihon Hakkei in Redrawing Japanese Attitudes to Landscape; Thomas Jones.- 6. The Development of Cinchona Cultivation and 'Kina Gaku' in the Japanese Empire, 1912-45; Ya-wen Ku.- 7. The Energetics of Militarized Landscapes: The Ecology of War in Henan, 1938-50; Micah S. Muscolino.- PART IV: REACTING TO DEVELOPMENT.- 8. Environmental Non-Government Organizations in China since the 1970s; Sheng Fei.- 9. Taiwan's Land Use after World War II: An Ecological Modernization Approach; Hsin-Hsun Huang, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, and Shih-Jung Hsu.- 10. Material Fetters and Spiritual Transcendence: Zhuang Zi and Environmental Thought; Yim-tze Kwong.