Micah S. Muscolino is Professor and Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in Modern Chinese History at the University of California, San Diego. His previous books include Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (Harvard University Asia Center, 2009), The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond, 1938–1952 (Cambridge University Press, 2015), and Perspectives on Environmental History in East Asia: Changes in the Land, Water and Air (Routledge, 2021).
Environmental historians of modern China have often examined how states transformed landscapes in pursuit of economic development and ideological visions of remaking nature. In Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China (University of Washington Press, 2025), Micah Muscolino shifts the focus from the environmental outcomes of conservation to the […]
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