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The Great Smog of China traces Chinese air pollution events dating back to more than 2,000 years ago. Based on the authors’ fieldwork, interviews and text studies, the book offers a short and concise history of selected air pollution incidents that for varying reasons prompted different kinds of responses and forms of engagement in Chinese society. The three authors, from the disciplines of anthropology, China studies and political science, identify traceable incidents of smog and air pollution that have been communicated in different media and came to impact society in various ways. This also informs a discussion of what it takes to transform people’s experiences of health and environmentally related risks of pollution into broader forms of socio-political agency.
Price: $24.00
Pages: 184
Publisher: Association for Asian Studies
Imprint: Association for Asian Studies
Publication Date:
22 September 2020
Trim Size: 9.00 X 6.00 in
ISBN: 9780924304927
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
In this little gem of a book, Ahlers, Hansen, and Svarverud combine little-known material about air pollution across the broad sweep of Chinese history with incisive and original analysis of how leaders, bureaucrats, scientists, and urban and rural publics have come to view air pollution as an issue of health, science, and governance. They do all this is the short span of 130 pages, providing China specialists with new insights into environmental history and governance, and providing environmental history and politics specialists with new perspectives on where China fits into the world air pollution picture.
Anna Lisa Ahlers, born in 1982, leads the Lise Meitner Research Group »China in the Global System of Science« at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. She was associate professor of Modern Chinese Society and Politics at the University of Oslo, Norway, from 2014-2020, and is a member of the Junge Akademie of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities and the Leopoldina.