E Elena Songster
Biographic Data
| ID | 1249653 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Elena Songster |
| GIVEN NAMES | E Elena |
| FAMILY NAME | Songster |
| SIGNATURE | SONGSTER E E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Saint Mary's College of California |
| ORCID | 0009-0001-9017-9221 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ian M. Miller. Fir and Empire
Journal Article Ian M. Miller. Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. Get access Ian M. Miller. Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2020. Pp. 296. Cloth $40.00. E Elena Songster E Elena Songster Saint Mary's College of California, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Amer…
Nation Building and the Nature of Communist Conservation
Through a thorough examination of government policies from the 1950s and 1960s, this chapter demonstrates a shift in the Chinese governmental view of nature. Nature had been seen alternately as either a hurdle to overcome or a well of resources and hidden knowledge. Following the Great Leap Forward (1958-9) and subsequent famine, government officials acquired a new perspective of nature and, for the first time, saw nature simultaneously as a mean…
The Winding Road to Wanglang
This study moves to the local level to offer a close investigation of just how the national nature protection policy, examined in Chapter 2, was implemented on the ground. The Wanglang Reserve, in Pingwu county of northern Sichuan province, became the first space demarcated as a panda reserve and thus the first experiment in engaging local people in the national cause of panda protection. Local bureaucrats, villagers of the Baima ethnic group, an…
Rescuing the Panda from a Reforming China
The year 1976 was monumental for China with the loss of important state leaders, and a tragic earthquake. Amidst all of the government’s active response to a panda starvation scare demonstrates the importance of this animal to China. A repeat starvation scare in the mid-1980s creates an opportunity to trace the transformation of China from Mao Zedong era to the Deng Xiaoping era by juxtaposing the two panda-starvation scares. The responses to the…
Conclusion
The panda did not become an official symbol of the PRC in a debate over worthy animal emblems, but emerged as a representation of China in various contexts by fulfilling specific needs of the nation. The giant panda became broadly relevant to human society when it was deemed a scientifically interesting animal. International research on pandas has probed most every aspect of the animal’s being. The Chinese government’s persistent endorsement of w…
Panda Diplomacy
One of the most salient examples of the giant panda as a national symbol, the phenomenon of offering state-gift pandas to other countries, grew out of the end of the Cultural Revolution era. State-gift pandas were among the most successful efforts by China to paint for itself a new international face as it strove for greater international recognition and integration. These high-profile gifts had a profound effect on the wild panda population. The…
Obscurity, Oddity, and Icon
With the benefit of scientific studies, popular media, and zoo displays, this chapter traces the transformation of the giant panda from an unknown animal to a national treasure. Prior to the twentieth century the giant panda was virtually absent from or forgotten in Chinese historic cultural artifacts. China’s general populace did not take a strong interest in the giant panda until after 1949. An upsurge of scientific studies on the giant panda u…
Panda Nation
Panda Nation links the emergence of the giant panda as a national symbol to the development of nature protection in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), 1949-present. The panda’s transformation into a national treasure exemplifies China’s efforts to distinguish itself as a nation through government-directed science and popular nationalism. Examining this process enhances our understanding of the intersection of policy, science, and the public. T…
The Yellow River
Reviewed by: The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern Chinaby David A Pietz E. Elena Songster (bio) The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China. by David A Pietz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 384. $39.95. David A. Pietz makes clear in this book that the Yellow River is not just any river. According to the first sentence, it ceased even being a river when, "In 1997 the Yellow River dried up" (p. 1). From th…
Cultivating the Nation in Fujian's Forests
Cultivating the Nation in Fujian's Forests
The Yellow River
Reviewed by: The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern Chinaby David A Pietz E. Elena Songster (bio) The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China. by David A Pietz. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Pp. 384. $39.95. David A. Pietz makes clear in this book that the Yellow River is not just any river. According to the first sentence, it ceased even being a river when, "In 1997 the Yellow River dried up" (p. 1). From th…
Nation Building and the Nature of Communist Conservation
Through a thorough examination of government policies from the 1950s and 1960s, this chapter demonstrates a shift in the Chinese governmental view of nature. Nature had been seen alternately as either a hurdle to overcome or a well of resources and hidden knowledge. Following the Great Leap Forward (1958-9) and subsequent famine, government officials acquired a new perspective of nature and, for the first time, saw nature simultaneously as a mean…
The Winding Road to Wanglang
This study moves to the local level to offer a close investigation of just how the national nature protection policy, examined in Chapter 2, was implemented on the ground. The Wanglang Reserve, in Pingwu county of northern Sichuan province, became the first space demarcated as a panda reserve and thus the first experiment in engaging local people in the national cause of panda protection. Local bureaucrats, villagers of the Baima ethnic group, an…
Rescuing the Panda from a Reforming China
The year 1976 was monumental for China with the loss of important state leaders, and a tragic earthquake. Amidst all of the government’s active response to a panda starvation scare demonstrates the importance of this animal to China. A repeat starvation scare in the mid-1980s creates an opportunity to trace the transformation of China from Mao Zedong era to the Deng Xiaoping era by juxtaposing the two panda-starvation scares. The responses to the…
Conclusion
The panda did not become an official symbol of the PRC in a debate over worthy animal emblems, but emerged as a representation of China in various contexts by fulfilling specific needs of the nation. The giant panda became broadly relevant to human society when it was deemed a scientifically interesting animal. International research on pandas has probed most every aspect of the animal’s being. The Chinese government’s persistent endorsement of w…
Panda Diplomacy
One of the most salient examples of the giant panda as a national symbol, the phenomenon of offering state-gift pandas to other countries, grew out of the end of the Cultural Revolution era. State-gift pandas were among the most successful efforts by China to paint for itself a new international face as it strove for greater international recognition and integration. These high-profile gifts had a profound effect on the wild panda population. The…
Obscurity, Oddity, and Icon
With the benefit of scientific studies, popular media, and zoo displays, this chapter traces the transformation of the giant panda from an unknown animal to a national treasure. Prior to the twentieth century the giant panda was virtually absent from or forgotten in Chinese historic cultural artifacts. China’s general populace did not take a strong interest in the giant panda until after 1949. An upsurge of scientific studies on the giant panda u…
Panda Nation
Panda Nation links the emergence of the giant panda as a national symbol to the development of nature protection in the People’s Republic of China (PRC), 1949-present. The panda’s transformation into a national treasure exemplifies China’s efforts to distinguish itself as a nation through government-directed science and popular nationalism. Examining this process enhances our understanding of the intersection of policy, science, and the public. T…
Ian M. Miller. Fir and Empire
Journal Article Ian M. Miller. Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. Get access Ian M. Miller. Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. Seattle, WA: University of Washington Press, 2020. Pp. 296. Cloth $40.00. E Elena Songster E Elena Songster Saint Mary's College of California, US Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Amer…
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