The tiger and the pangolin : nature, culture, and conservation in China / Chris Coggins.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Coggins, Chris, 1963-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nature conservation--China--History.

Nature conservation.

Wildlife conservation--China--History.

Wildlife conservation.

Ecology--China--History.

Ecology.

History.

China--Civilization.

China.

Civilization.

Physical Description:

xi, 339 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2003]

Summary:

Examines historical perceptions of nature in China.

Contents:

Introduction: a short history of nature conservation in China

A mountain mosaic: biological and cultural diversity

Lord of the hundred beasts: a history of tigers and people in southeast China

The wealth of mountains: settlement, subsistence, and population change in Meihuashan before 1949

Three rises, two falls: political ecology and socioeconomic development in Meihuashan after 1949

Burning the mountains: a historical landscape ecology of the Meihuashan ecosystem

Habitat conservation in the post-reform landscape

White tigers and Azure dragons: Fengshui forests, sacred space, and the preservation of biodiversity in village landscapes

Eating from the mountain: hunting traditions, the wildlife trade, and wildlife management

Vital connections: linking nature conservation and cultural ecology in southeast China and beyond.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-329) and index.

ISBN:

0824825063

OCLC:

49375599