Table of Contents for Contested Environmentalisms

Contested Environmentalisms
Trees and the Making of Modern China
Cheng Li

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction

1.Arbor Day: The Rise and Fall of China's Environmentalism in the Republican Era (1912–49)

2.Selling the Forestry Revolution: The Rhetoric of Afforestation in Socialist China (1949–61)

3.Marching into the Desert: Planting Ethnic Borderlands in Mao-Era Ecocinema

4.Deweaponizing Forests and Engineering Nature: Militarization, Coming-of-Age Stories, and Science Fiction in the Mao Era

5.Great Green Awakening: Ecological Science and Chinese Conservation Literature of the 1980s

Coda: Arbor Day Is Every Day!: Virtual Arbor Day and Consumer Environmentalism

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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