“Fire and Society in Modern China: Fire Disasters and Natural Landscapes in East Asian Environmental History” (1820-1965)
Land clearance and agriculture have long been associated with fire. Open fire, whether from natural or human ignition, has changed the face of many natural landscapes, especially in frontier regions. Much of modern China’s landscape has been shaped by fire, yet fire has been treated as a “disaster”...
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| Language: | English |
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Open Library of Humanities
2012-11-01
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| Series: | The ASIANetwork Exchange: A Journal for Asian Studies in the Liberal Arts |
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| Online Access: | http://www.asianetworkexchange.org/articles/35 |