Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
- Dynasties, Qing Dynasty Emperors' Reign Dates, and Weights and Measures
- Acknowledgments
- Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt
- Introduction
- 1 “Firs and Pines a Hundred Spans Round”: The Natural Environment of Lingnan
- 2 “All Deeply Forested and Wild Places Are Not Malarious”: Human Settlement and Ecological Change in Lingnan, 2–1400 CE
- 3 “Agiriculture Is the Foundation”: Economic Recovery and Development of Lingnan During the Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644
- 4 “All the People Have Fled”: War and the Enviroment in the Mid-Seventeenth Century Crisis, 1644–83
- 5 “Rich Households Compete to Build Ships”: Overseas Trade and Economic Recovery
- 6 “It Never Used to Snow”: Climatic Change and Agricultural Productivity
- 7 “There Is Only a Certain Amount of Grain Produced”: Granaries and the Role of the State in the Food Supply System
- 8 “Trade in Rice Is Brisk”: Market Integration and the Environment
- 9 “Population Increases Daily but the Land Does Not”: Land Clearance in the Eighteenth Century
- 10 “People Said that Extinction Was Not Possible”: The Ecological Consequences of Land Clearance
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 August 2009
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Maps, Figures, and Tables
- Dynasties, Qing Dynasty Emperors' Reign Dates, and Weights and Measures
- Acknowledgments
- Tigers, Rice, Silk, and Silt
- Introduction
- 1 “Firs and Pines a Hundred Spans Round”: The Natural Environment of Lingnan
- 2 “All Deeply Forested and Wild Places Are Not Malarious”: Human Settlement and Ecological Change in Lingnan, 2–1400 CE
- 3 “Agiriculture Is the Foundation”: Economic Recovery and Development of Lingnan During the Ming Dynasty, 1368–1644
- 4 “All the People Have Fled”: War and the Enviroment in the Mid-Seventeenth Century Crisis, 1644–83
- 5 “Rich Households Compete to Build Ships”: Overseas Trade and Economic Recovery
- 6 “It Never Used to Snow”: Climatic Change and Agricultural Productivity
- 7 “There Is Only a Certain Amount of Grain Produced”: Granaries and the Role of the State in the Food Supply System
- 8 “Trade in Rice Is Brisk”: Market Integration and the Environment
- 9 “Population Increases Daily but the Land Does Not”: Land Clearance in the Eighteenth Century
- 10 “People Said that Extinction Was Not Possible”: The Ecological Consequences of Land Clearance
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Tigers, Rice, Silk, and SiltEnvironment and Economy in Late Imperial South China, pp. vii - xPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1998