The Cultivated Forest

"...a superb array of essays makes this fascinating collection invaluable. The rubric of cultivated forests is enormously productive in helping us understand that human societies never developed separately from trees but in intimate association with them, shaping forests and being shaped in return." * Seoul Journal of Korean Studies *

Ian M. Miller is assistant professor of history at St. Johns University. He is author of Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. Bradley Camp Davis is associate professor of history at Eastern Connecticut State University. He is author of Imperial Bandits: Outlaws and Rebels in the China-Vietnam Borderlands. Brian Lander is assistant professor of history and environment and society at Brown University. He is author of The Kings Harvest: A Political Ecology of China from the First Farmers to the First Empire. John S. Lee is assistant professor of East Asian history at Durham University. Contributors: David A. Bello, John Elijah Bender, Brian Collins, Keala Hagmann, Stevan Harrell, Tom Hinckley, Larissa Pitts, Amanda Schmidt, Faizah Zakaria, and Meng Zhang

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Cultivated Forest / Ian M. Miller, Bradley Camp Davis, and John S. Lee ix Chapter 1. Deforestation in Early China: How People Adapted to Wood Scarcity / Brian Lander Chapter 2. Forestry by Contract: Knowledge, Ownership, and the Written Record in South China / Ian M. Miller Chapter 3. Fighting over Nature: Resource Disputes in Central Japan during an Age of Instability, 14751635 / John Elijah Bender Chapter 4. The Sylvan Local: The Pine Protection Kye in Late Chosn Korea, 17001900 / John S. Lee Chapter 5. Frontier Timber in Southwest China: Market, Empire, and Identity / Meng Zhang Chapter 6. Splintered Habitats: The Fragmentation of Ecotone Northern Chinas Imperial Woodland Complexes / David A. Bello Chapter 7. Camphor, Celluloid, and Colonialism: The Dutch East Indies and Colonial Taiwan in Comparative Perspective / Faizah Zakaria Chapter 8. Modern Trees for Backward China: Arbor Day and the Struggle against Ecological "Backwardness" in Republican China, 19111937 / Larissa Pitts Chapter 9. Sunny Slopes Are Good for Grain, Shady Slopes Are Good for Trees: Nuosu Yi Agroforestry in Southwestern Sichuan / Stevan Harrell, Amanda H. Schmidt, Brian D. Collins, R. Keala Hagmann, and Thomas M. Hinckley Glossaries of Plant Names and Non-Roman Characters Bibliography List of Contributors Index