Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: The Cultivated Forest / Ian M. Miller, Bradley Camp Davis and John S. Lee
  • Deforestation and Wood Scarcity in Early China / Brian Lander
  • Forestry by Contract: Knowledge, Ownership, and the Written Record in South China / Ian M. Miller
  • Fighting over Nature: Resource Disputes in Central Japan During an Age of Instability, 1475-1635 / John Elijah Bender
  • The Sylvan Local: The Pine Protection Kye in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1700-1900 / John S. Lee
  • Frontier Timber in Southwest China: Market, Empire, and Identity
  • / Meng Zhang
  • Splintered Habitats: The Fragmentation of Ecotone Northern China's Imperial Woodland Complexes / David A. Bello
  • Camphor, Celluloid, and Colonialism: The Dutch East Indies and Colonial Taiwan in Comparative Perspective / Faizah Zakaria
  • Modern Trees for Backward China: Arbor Day and the Struggle Against Ecological "Backwardness" in Republican China, 1911-1937 / Larissa Pitts
  • 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.