New dissertation "Philological #Botany: The Poetics of Plant Classification in Early China and Japan" focuses on the hibiscus, orange tree, and plum. #envhum #plants earlychinasinology.blogspot.com/2023/10/disser…

The latest edition of 'Early Medieval China' features four papers, with three of them delving into the intricate and intriguing human-animal relationships #envhum #AnimalHistory earlychinasinology.blogspot.com/2023/10/early-…

A beautifully-made website by Andrew Chittick: Maritime Asia in the Third Century CE #GIS #DH storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/987f5e…

The book "Medieval Animals on the Move" is open-access! #envhum #AnimalHistory link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9…

Nicholas Menzies's latest book: Ordering the Myriad Things: From Traditional Knowledge to Scientific #Botany in China #envhum #plants uwapress.uw.edu/book/978029574….

I found this book that documented edible wild plants being foraged by Palestinians. However, there are laws set by Israel that prevent Palestinians, especially women from foraging wild plants. But those women are resisting this law. palestineinbetween.com/Palestinian-Wi…

an environmental history section in the forthcoming volume of Études chinoises AFEC ed. with A. Dumont and A. Bianchi Alice Bianchi : hydrology (Han), mining resources + locust control (Ming), climatic disasters in movies (Republic), literature and nature (PRC)

Another new book about the Yellow River: "When the Yellow River Floods: Water, Technology, and Nation-Building in Early Twentieth-Century Chinese Literature" #envhum hkupress.hku.hk/When_the_Yello…

David Pankenier's new article: "The climate downturns in China caused by volcanic eruptions in 535–40 CE and by Thera (Santorini) at the founding of the Shang dynasty (1562 BCE)" #envhist #climate degruyter.com/document/doi/1…

New book on the movement of medical drugs, edited by Anne Gerritsen and Gao Xi #envhist #plants book.douban.com/subject/364926…

The People’s West Lake examines the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) efforts to reconfigure Hangzhou’s urban space, alter the natural environment in West Lake (Xihu), and refashion the city’s culture in post-1949 China. #envhist amazon.com/Peoples-West-L…

Special issue of Asian Studies: #Ecology in Asian Traditions: Perspectives on Chinese and Buddhist Environmental Philosophy #envhum #Buddhism journals.uni-lj.si/as/issue/view/…

a 1893 cotton painting of a Sioux warrior hunting bison(?) on horseback #horse #MuseumFünfKontinente

check out this amazing online exhibition "Creation from Creatures: #Plants and #Animals on the Silk Roads" museum24h.com/360/wanwusheng…

Dr. Jin Xu of Columbia University will give a talk on the #Sogdians traveling along the Silk Road to China at 20:00 on Nov 28 (US). Join us if you can! Link: asmeet.webex.com/asmeet/j.php?M… meeting number: 2516 527 4244 password: 73s7pUMEJhX

"Bringing together approaches from environmental and medical history, this digital dialogue will explore the intricacies of rearing, keeping and treating livestock animals in late imperial and Republican China with a focus on horses and sheep." #animals #envhist

“Large swaths of the Great Wall of China are held together thanks to "biocrusts," thin layers of organic materials that have helped protect the architectural marvel from erosion ” #envhum livescience.com/archaeology/th…

James Scott's new book on #floods will be out in March, 2025 #envhum amazon.com/dp/0300278497/…