![]() | The Retreat of the Elephants : An Environmental History of China The eminent China scholar delivers a landmark study of Chinese culture's relationship to the natural environment across thousands of years of history. Mark Elvin is professor of Chinese history at the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, Australian National University, Canberra. Author of The Pattern of the Chinese Past and other works, he has taught at Oxford, Cambridge, Paris, and Heidelberg, and been a visiting research fellow at Harvard. |
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