Mark Elvin
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 274292 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Mark Elvin |
| NOMBRES | Mark |
| APELLIDO | Elvin |
| FIRMA | ELVIN M |
| AFILIACIONES | Australian National University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 51 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 49 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Preface for Chinese Readers 2014
Unpublished Preface for Chinese Readers 2007
Drafted for Chinese readers, this unpublished preface—discovered only after Elvin’s death in 2023—is a major retrospective assessment, setting out his broader research agenda and registering his own criticisms of his work
A Self Portrait
Three Thousand Years of Unsustainable Growth
This chapter discusses the history of China from about 1000 bc to the present day from the point of view of the interaction of politics, economics, and the environment. The apparent long-term pre-modern annual rate of growth thus rose from about 0.07% during the first millennium ad to 0.1% during most of the second millennium, to about 0.5% in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and then to 0.65% during the early modern epoch. The broad char…
The Retreat of the Elephants
This is the first environmental history of China during the three thousand years for which there are written records. It is also a treasure trove of literary, political, aesthetic, scientific, and religious sources, which allow the reader direct access to the views and feelings of the Chinese people toward their environment and their landscape. Elvin chronicles the spread of the Chinese style of farming that eliminated the habitat of the elephant…
Bureaucratic control of irrigation and labour in late-imperial China
Was There a Transcendental Breakthrough in China?
CHAPTER 14 Was There a Transcendental Breakthrough in China?
An inter-continental comparison between the environmental histories of two lake catchment systems in montane environments of France and South West China
Confused Alarms
China’s Multiple Revolutions
Beneath the dramatic social, political and military turmoil of China’s last two centuries, Mark Elvin suggests, lay a series of existential crises amid the collapse of established pillars of authority, whose most vivid expression can be found in two largely forgotten novels of the 1920s and 1970s
Concepts of Nature
This book, inspired by the sociologist Günter Dux, co-edited by the historian Hans Ulrich Vogel, and introduced by Mark Elvin, is a collective intellectual masterpiece written by some of the world’s leading scholars. Its purpose is to illuminate premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by comparing them with their counterpart traditions in Europe. In so doing it also subtly reshapes our understanding of premodern European concepts of the n…
Concepts of Nature
Landscapes of Ausonius, mountain retreats of Xie Tiao, mediaeval paradise-gardens: can underlying similarities of deep structure and social function be traced in the work of classical European and Chinese writers? A panoramic cross-cultural comparison of approaches to the natural world
Defining the Explicanda in the 'West and the Rest' Debate
L et me begin by putting some cards on the table. My perspective is that of someone trained more than forty years ago in western European history, but who has since worked almost entirely on the history of China, primarily from sources in the original language but almost always within an explicitly or implicitly comparative framework. I wrote my doctoral thesis on the first functioning formally, that is electorally, democratic institution in Chin…
The Historian as Haruspex
Giovanni Arrighi’s Adam Smith in Beijing proposes a bold new political-economic patterning of China’s rise, America’s decline. Mark Elvin examines the assumptions behind narratives of divergent West and East, and the parameters that will define a reconfigured world order
La Chine américaine
What Books Should be More Widely Read in Environmental History
L'histoire exemplaire d'une rivière du Yunnan (XVIIe-XIXe s.)
Elvin Mark. L'histoire exemplaire d'une rivière du Yunnan (XVIIe-XIXe s.). In: Comptes rendus des séances de l'Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, 149e année, N. 3, 2005. pp. 1041-1059
Early Modern History and the Social Sciences
This collection of eleven essays furthers the dialogue between early modern history and the social sciences through an analysis of Fernand Braudel's The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World of Philip II. The contributors review various historiographical traditions to arrive at conclusions on contemporary theory and practice in the exchange between history and the disciplines of geography, economics, sociology, anthropology, politics (diploma…
How did the Cracks Open? The Origins of the Subversion of China's Late-Traditional Culture by the West
The military humiliation of China by the West in the 19th century was slight in objective terms but lethal to late-imperial political culture. This was partly because prestige structures, such as that of China, are unusually susceptible to humiliation, and partly because the western impact revitalized and reshaped existing subversive elements. Traditionalists and would-be reformers agreed that there was a crisis, but offered conflicting solutions…
Controlling from Afar
Reviewed by: Controlling from Afar: The Daoguang Emperor’s Management of the Grand Canal Crisis, 1924–1926* Mark Elvin (bio) Controlling from Afar: The Daoguang Emperor’s Management of the Grand Canal Crisis, 1924–1926. By Jane Kate Leonard. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, 1996. Pp. xxv+331; illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00 (cloth); $25.00 (paper). In 1826, four hundred years after the …
The Environmental Legacy of Imperial China
China's long-term history – social, economic, political, and intellectual – has been interwoven from the start with its environment. In counterposed fashion, the history of the Chinese environment has been entwined with that of anthropogenic forces. The Chinese landscape was one of the most transformed in the pre-modern world as the result of its reshaping for cereal cultivation, re-engineering by hydraulic works for drainage, irrigation and floo…
Another History
These essays are comparative studies of developments in China in the context of contemporaneous developments in Europe. Features in China's history, society, geography, and developments in technology, industry, demography and literature are scrutinised and provide insights into developments in China spanning a thousand years.
Sediments of Time
Preface Introduction Mark Elvin The context China's environmental history in world persepective John McNeill Interpreting the physical environment Man's impact on the vegetation and landscape in the Inner Himalaya and Tibet Wolfgang Holzner and Monika Kriechbaum The villagers' view of environmental history in Yunnan province Nick Menzies Human Seettlement Environment versus water control Shiba Yshinobu Han immigration and the settlement of Taiwan…
Concepts of nature
This book, inspired by the sociologist Gunter Dux, co-edited by the historian Hans Ulrich Vogel, and introduced by Mark Elvin, is a collective intellectual masterpiece written by some of the world's leading scholars. Its purpose is to illuminate premodern Chinese ways of thinking about Nature by comparing them with their counterpart traditions in Europe. In so doing it also subtly reshapes our understanding of premodern European concepts of the n…
Female Virtue and the State in China
FEMALE VIRTUE AND THE STATE IN CHINA Get access Mark Elvin Mark Elvin St. Antony's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 104, Issue 1, August 1984, Pages 111–152, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/104.1.111 Published: 01 August 1984
The Last Thousand Years of Chinese History
It is immediately apparent to anyone who juxtaposes those two massive works of scholarship and patient investigation, Sudō Yoshiyuki'sHistory of Land Tenure Systems in China, which is mostly concerned with the Sung dynasty, and John Lossing Buck'sLand Utilization in China, which describes the early 1930s, that in the intervening thousand years the character of Chinese rural society changed, and changed radically
Why China failed to create an endogenous industrial capitalism
Defining the Explicanda in the 'West and the Rest' Debate
L et me begin by putting some cards on the table. My perspective is that of someone trained more than forty years ago in western European history, but who has since worked almost entirely on the history of China, primarily from sources in the original language but almost always within an explicitly or implicitly comparative framework. I wrote my doctoral thesis on the first functioning formally, that is electorally, democratic institution in Chin…
Who Was Responsible for the Weather? Moral Meteorology in Late Imperial China
Early Communist Land Reform and the Kiangsi Rural Economy
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"A Working Definition of "Modernity
Journal Article A WORKING DEFINITION OF “MODERNITY”? Get access Mark Elvin Mark Elvin St. Antony's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 113, Issue 1, November 1986, Pages 209–213, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/113.1.209 Published: 01 November 1986
The Work of Joseph Needham
Journal Article THE WORK OF JOSEPH NEEDHAM Get access Mark Elvin Mark Elvin St. Antony's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 87, Issue 1, May 1980, Pages 17–20, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/87.1.17 Published: 01 May 1980
The environmental history of China
(1990). The environmental history of China: an agenda of ideas. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 39-53
Imperial China
Commerce and Society in Sung China
The Last Thousand Years of Chinese History
It is immediately apparent to anyone who juxtaposes those two massive works of scholarship and patient investigation, Sudō Yoshiyuki'sHistory of Land Tenure Systems in China, which is mostly concerned with the Sung dynasty, and John Lossing Buck'sLand Utilization in China, which describes the early 1930s, that in the intervening thousand years the character of Chinese rural society changed, and changed radically
Early Communist Land Reform and the Kiangsi Rural Economy
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The pattern of the Chinese past
A satisfactory comprehensive history of the social and economic development of pre-modern China, the largest country in the world in terms of population, and with a documentary record covering three millennia, is still far from possible. The present work is only an attempt to disengage the major themes that seem to be of relevance to our understanding of China today. In particular, this volume studies three questions. Why did the Chinese Empire s…
The Administration of Shanghai, 1905-1914
The Chinese City Between Two Worlds
The Pattern of the Chinese Past
Skills and Resources in Late Traditional China
The Pattern of the Chinese Past
The Chinese Red Army
The Pattern of the Chinese past
The Chinese City and the Chinese Revolution
The Chinese City Between Two Worlds
Imperial China
The Chinese City between Two Worlds
The Work of Joseph Needham
Journal Article THE WORK OF JOSEPH NEEDHAM Get access Mark Elvin Mark Elvin St. Antony's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 87, Issue 1, May 1980, Pages 17–20, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/87.1.17 Published: 01 May 1980
Land and Lineage in China. A Study of T'ung-Ch'eng County, Anhwei, in the Ming and Ch'ing Dynasties
Female Virtue and the State in China
FEMALE VIRTUE AND THE STATE IN CHINA Get access Mark Elvin Mark Elvin St. Antony's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 104, Issue 1, August 1984, Pages 111–152, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/104.1.111 Published: 01 August 1984
Why China failed to create an endogenous industrial capitalism
"A Working Definition of "Modernity
Journal Article A WORKING DEFINITION OF “MODERNITY”? Get access Mark Elvin Mark Elvin St. Antony's CollegeOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Past & Present, Volume 113, Issue 1, November 1986, Pages 209–213, https://doi.org/10.1093/past/113.1.209 Published: 01 November 1986
Books
The Chinese Army after Mao, by Ellis Joffe. Weidenfeld and Nicolson, London, 1987. 210 pp. £20. ISBN 0 6745 4849 3 Centre and Province in the People's Republic of China: Sichuan and Guizhou 1955–1965, by David S. G. Goodman. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1986. 257 pp. £22.50. ISBN 0 5213 2530 7. The China Challenge, by David S. G. Goodman, Martin Lockett and Gerald Segal. (Chatham House Papers 32) Routledge and Kegan Paul, London, New Yo…
The environmental history of China
(1990). The environmental history of China: an agenda of ideas. Asian Studies Review: Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 39-53
Il "Peccato" in Cina
Man Against the Sea
Inner Harngzhou Bay, on the east coast of China at approximately 30 degrees N, is an unstable macrotidal estuarine system whose geographical configuration has altered dramatically over the last thousand years. In particular, the mouth of the Qiartarng river has shifted twice: (1) in 1620 from a southern debouchement just to the north of Mount Kan to a central or mid-bay debouchement south of mount Herzhuang, and (2) in 1692-5 from this central de…
The Environmental Legacy of Imperial China
China's long-term history – social, economic, political, and intellectual – has been interwoven from the start with its environment. In counterposed fashion, the history of the Chinese environment has been entwined with that of anthropogenic forces. The Chinese landscape was one of the most transformed in the pre-modern world as the result of its reshaping for cereal cultivation, re-engineering by hydraulic works for drainage, irrigation and floo…
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