Woodlands, Warlords, and Wasteful Nations
Transnational Networks and Conservation Science in 1920s China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2109147 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Micah S Muscolino (0000-0002-8816-9729, University of California San Diego, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2019 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 712-738 |
| Publication date | 2019-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417519000161 |
| OpenAlex | W2953720473 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 29 |
This article investigates the production of conservation science at nodes of transnational networks of encounter through an examination of field studies conducted during the mid-1920s in North China's Shanxi province by the American forester and soil conservation expert Walter C. Lowdermilk with his student, colleague, and collaborator Ren Chengtong. Even in the politically fragmented China of the 1920s, their research on deforestation, streamflow, and erosion benefited from alliances with Shanxi's regional powerholder, Yan Xishan, and produced environmental knowledge that furthered the agenda of harnessing natural resources to strengthen the state. By paying attention to two-way interactions between Chinese and foreign actors in the construction and transmission of knowledge about nature, the article speaks to the global context of the early twentieth-century conservation movement and adds to recent scholarship that recasts China's encounter with modern science as one of active appropriation, translation, and innovation rather than passive reception
Appropriation · China · Context (archaeology) · Economics · Economy · Forester · Geography · Natural resource · Political science · Scholarship · State (computer science) · Chinese history and philosophy · Forestry · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis · Vietnamese History and Culture Studies
Crimes against Nature
Something New Under the Sun
Footprints in the Soil, People and Ideas in Soil History
Colonial conservation, ecological hegemony and popular resistance
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies
The Nationalist Revolution in China, 1923–1928
Tears from Iron
Cultivating the Nation in Fujian's Forests
Lessons from the Dust Bowl
Science and the Desiccationist Discourse of the 20th Century
The stubborn earth
The Stream-Flow Controversy
Soils and Societies
Depression, Dust Bowl, Demography, and Drought
Crisis of the Wasteful Nation
The Ends of the Earth
Soil erosion, conservationism and ideas about development
Sciences and the Global
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |