Environment
Environment in Asia Series featuring Jesse Rodenbiker – Ecological States: Politics of Science and Nature in Urbanizing China
CGIS South Room S250 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United StatesSpeaker: Jesse Rodenbiker, Associate Research Scholar, Princeton University; Assistant Teaching Professor of Geography, Rutgers University-New Brunswick Discussant: Stevan Harrell, Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Environmental and Forest Sciences, University of Washington; […]
Environment in Asia Series featuring Timothy Brook – The Price of Collapse: The Little Ice Age and the Fall of Ming China
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeakers:Timothy Brook, The University of British Columbia, Professor EmeritusClark Alejandrino, Trinity CollegeYan Gao, University of MemphisIan M. Miller, St John’s University Series Convener:Ling Zhang, Boston College In 1644, after close […]
Environment in Asia Series Lecture featuring Huaiyu Chen – Human-Animal Studies and Religions in Medieval Chinese Society
CGIS Knafel K262 1737 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA, United StatesSpeaker: Huaiyu Chen, Arizona State UniversityDiscussant: Brian Lander, Brown University This study illustrates how Buddhism shaped Chinese knowledge and experience of animals after it gradually took root in Chinese society […]