Synthesizes multiple perspectives on Asian forests from early history to the near present Forests have histories that need to be told. This examination of wood and woodlands in East and Southeast Asia brings together case studies from China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Sumatra to explore continuities in the history of forest management across these regions as well as the distinctive qualities of human-forest relations within each context. With a general introduction to forest histories in East and Southeast Asia and a multidisciplinary set of authors, The Cultivated Forest constructs alternative lineages of forest knowledge that aim to transcend the frameworks imposed by colonial or national histories. Across these regions, forests were sites of exploitation, contestation, and ritual just as they were in Europe and America. This volume puts studies of Asian forests into conversation with global forest histories.

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Cover
Title Page
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Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Cultivated Forest
Chapter One. Deforestation in Early China: How People Adapted to Wood Scarcity
Chapter Two. Forestry by Contract: Knowledge, Ownership, and the Written Record in South China
Chapter Three. Fighting over Nature: Resource Disputes in Central Japan during an Age of Instability, 1475–1635
Chapter Four. The Sylvan Local: The Pine Protection Kye in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1700–1900
Chapter Five. Frontier Timber in Southwest China: Market, Empire, and Identity
Chapter Six. Splintered Habitats: The Fragmentation of Ecotone Northern China’s Imperial Woodland Complexes
Chapter Seven. Camphor, Celluloid, and Colonialism: The Dutch East Indies and Colonial Taiwan in Comparative Perspective
Chapter Eight. Modern Trees for Backward China: Arbor Day and the Struggle against Ecological “Backwardness” in Republican China, 1911–1937
Chapter Nine. Sunny Slopes Are Good for Grain, Shady Slopes Are Good for Trees: Nuosu Yi Agroforestry in Southwestern Sichuan
Glossaries of Plant Names and Non-Roman Characters
Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index

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