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SUMMARY:Christopher Atwood: Environmental Geographies of the Mongol Empire
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Christopher Atwood\, Professor\, Mongolian and Chinese Frontier & Ethnic History\, University of Pennsylvania \nThe European conquest of the Americas\, the consequent ecological exchange\, massive mortality\, and rise of plantation economies have been one of the prime topics of environmental history. Less widely understood have been the similar ecological impacts and imperatives of the thirteenth century Mongol empire. Environment has been an important area of focus in the study of Central Eurasian nomads\, but within a framework that takes the relative stability of the ecological infrastructure as a given. The Mongol empire\, however\, resulted in a both a vast expansion of pastoralism and hunting together with the kind of directed agricultural expansion that we usually associate with the early modern world. The result was an environment in Mongol China that looked vastly different from anything in China before or after – and yet which left permanent marks on the Chinese economy and agriculture. This paper will present research on the environmental geography of Mongol empire\, focusing on North China\, showing how distinctive the environment was\, and how Mongol imperial policy used environmental zonation and control of labor as a crucial tool of governance.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/christopher-atwood-environment-in-asia-lecture-series/
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SUMMARY:Alex Wang - Symbolic Legitimacy and Chinese Environmental Reform
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Alex Wang\, UCLA \nAt the heart of debates over Chinese rule of law is the question of state legitimacy. Critics argue that legitimacy requires liberal democratic rule of law. Chinese leaders have long relied on performance legitimacy – economic development and maintenance of social stability – as the core basis of their rule. Western scholarship on modern Chinese law and politics has\, to a significant degree\, critiqued the ability of China’s current institutions to perform as claimed. \nBut apart from any actual results that Chinese governance may generate\, the entire project of governance reform can be structured in a way that influences public impressions of state legitimacy. The process of reform is not only about attaining performance goals\, but is itself a kind of performance. This act of “performing performance” also signals competence\, commitment to the people\, tradition\, nationalist strength\, and a host of other positive values to citizens and other audiences. \nThis talk explores the symbolic aspects of Chinese environmental reform and potential implications\, drawing on case studies in air pollution\, climate change\, and China’s Belt & Road Initiative. \nAlex Wang is Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law\, and a leading expert on environmental law and the law and politics of China. His research focuses on the social effects of law\, and the interaction of law and institutions in China and the United States. His previous research has examined\, among other things\, the institutional design of environmental law and policy\, environmental bureaucracy\, public interest litigation\, information disclosure\, and environmental courts. His work has addressed air pollution\, climate change\, and other environmental issues. \n  \nThis event is co-sponsored by the East Asian Legal Studies Program at Harvard Law School.
URL:https://fairbank.fas.harvard.edu/events/alex-wang-environment-in-asia-series/
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