Ecological History in Preindustrial and Postagrarian China

This commentary compares Stevan Harrell’s “resilience” model to other familiar paradigms of China’s premodern history, including those of Mark Elvin and G. William Skinner. It gives examples of the Yellow River and frontier clearance as supporting evidence for the utility of the model. It further suggests that the People’s Republic of China under Xi Jinping is entering, according to Harrell’s framework, a new “conservation” (K) phase of rigidity, blindness, and conservatism that bodes ill for China’s environmental future

Archaeology · Biology · China · Geography · Political science · Ecology · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · Historical Economic and Social Studies · History · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies

• The Ecology of War in China

  Open Access•Micah S Muscolino•Ecology of War in China•2014

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• The River, the Plain, and the State

  Open Access•Ling Zhang•River, the Plain, and the State•2016

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• The Yellow River

  Christopher Ruane•Asian Affairs•2022

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• Presidential Address

  Open Access•G William Skinner•The Journal of Asian Studies•1985

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• An Ecological History of Modern China

  Jesse Rodenbiker•The Journal of Asian Studies•2024

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