Introduction: Environment, modernization, and development in East Asia : perspectives from environmental history / James Beattie and Tsʻui-jung Liu
Part I. Modernization and development in comparative perspectives
Agriculture, population, and environment in late imperial China / E.N. Anderson
A case study of Chinese migrants and colonial development in the British Empire, 1860s-1920s / James Beattie
Part II. Waterscapes : development, modernization, and society
Dike-based communities between water and sand : the sand-land environmental system in Dongchong, South China, 1720s-1980s / Jianxiong Ma
Waterscape and social transformations in southern Taiwan : the damming of Mudan Creek / Shao-hua Liu and Shu-min Huang
Part III. Landscape commodification
The role of the Shin Nihon Hakkei in redrawing Japanese attitudes to landscape / Thomas Jones
The development of Cinchona cultivation and "Kina Gaku" in the Japanese Empire, 1912-45 / Ya-wen Ku
The energetics of militarized landscapes : the ecology of war in Henan, 1938-50 / Micah S. Muscolino
Part IV. Reacting to development
Environmental non-government organizations in China since the 1970s / Sheng Fei
Taiwan's land use after World War II : an ecological modernization approach / Hsin-Hsun Huang, Hsin-Huang Michael Hsiao, and Shih-Jung Hsu
Material fetters and spiritual transcendence : Zhuang Zi and environmental thought / Yim-tze Charles Kwong.