内容简介
从蔡京改革到张居正“一条鞭法”,中国发生了一场贯穿宋元明的“森林革命”,千万根巨木,不仅营造出繁荣的木材市场,也缔造了东方海军神话。现代林业制度,原来起源于中国而不是西方?帝国兴衰与森林进退相生相伴,是历史的巧合还是必然?本书对这些问题的回应,足以挑战伊懋可《大象的退却》,意义堪比彭慕兰《大分流》。
作者、译者简介
作者
孟一衡,本名伊恩•M.米勒(Ian M.Miller),出生于美国费城,哈佛大学历史及东亚语言博士,圣约翰大学历史学助理教授,研究领域为环境史、中国史。曾任耶鲁大学农业研究项目研究员、柏林马普科技史研究所访问学者。
译者
张连伟,北京林业大学教授,博士生导师,美国杜克大学访问学者。
李莉,北京林业大学教授,博士生导师,美国杜克大学访问学者,兼任中国林学会林业史分会秘书长。
李飞,北京林业大学副教授,硕士生导师,兼任中国林学会林业史分会副秘书长。
郎洁,就职于北京林业大学林业史研究室,2014年博士毕业于北京大学历史系历史地理学专业,2019—2020年美国普渡大学访问学者。
Content introduction
From CAI Jing's reform to Zhang Juzheng's "One whip method", China had a "forest revolution" throughout the Song, Yuan and Ming dynasties, and thousands of giant trees not only created a prosperous timber market, but also created the myth of the Eastern navy. Modern forestry system, originally originated in China rather than the West? Is the rise and fall of empires and the rise and fall of forests a historical coincidence or necessity? The book's response to these questions challenges Imacore's Retreat of the Elephants and is comparable in significance to Pomeranz's The Great Divergence.
Introduction to the author and translator
author
Yiheng Meng, born Ian M.Miller in Philadelphia, USA, holds a PhD in history and East Asian languages from Harvard University, and is an assistant professor of history at St. John's University. His research interests include environmental history and Chinese history. He was a research fellow at Yale University's Agricultural Research Program and a visiting scholar at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Technology in Berlin.
translator
Zhang Lianwei, professor, doctoral supervisor, Beijing Forestry University, Visiting scholar, Duke University, USA.
Li Li, professor of Beijing Forestry University, doctoral supervisor, visiting scholar of Duke University, and Secretary General of Forestry History Branch of Chinese Forestry Society.
Li Fei, associate professor, master tutor, Beijing Forestry University, and Deputy Secretary General of Forestry History Branch of Chinese Forestry Society.
Lang Jie, who works at the Department of Forestry History, Beijing Forestry University, received her Ph. D. in historical geography from the Department of History, Peking University in 2014. She is a visiting scholar at Purdue University in 2019-2020.