Firs and pines a hundred spans round: the natural environment of Lingnan
All deeply forested and wild places are not malarious: human settlement and ecological change, 2-1400 AD
Agriculture is the foundation: economic recovery and development in the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644
All the people have fled: war and the environment in the mid-17th century crisis, 1644-1683
Rich households compete to build ships: overseas trade and economic revival
It never used to snow: climate change and agricultural productivity
There is only a certain amount of grain produced: the role of the state in the food supply system
Trade in rice is brisk: market integration and the environment
Population increases daily, but the land does not: the story of land clearance in the 18th century
People said that extinction was not possible: the ecological consequences of land clearance.