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...Roger Thompson The Man Awakened from Dreams: One Man’s Life in a North China Village, 1857–1942 . Henrietta Harrison . Copyright 2007 Agricultural History Society 2007 2007 Book Reviews attention.(Long-term environmental and land-use stability, for example, do not necessarily refute...

...Fengfeng Zhang 290 Agricultural History development, Blevin s decision to examine the geographical region gives a much fuller analysis of life in the hills. A History of the Ozarks does not disappoint. Megan L. Bever Missouri Southern State University Railroads and the Transformation of China...

... an important opportunity to take stock, to reflect further on important transnational connections, and to chart new paths forward for national and regional histories. Jackson R. Perry Georgetown University Famine Relief in Warlord China. By Pierre Fuller. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University East Asia Center...

...Peter B. Lavelle Abstract In the second half of the nineteenth century, China experienced agricultural and ecological crises of increasing frequency and severity. This article shows how these crises fostered discussion among Chinese elites about the value of steam-powered machines for agricultural...

...Yixin Chen Abstract This article examines how Mao’s grand strategy for Cold War competition inflicted a catastrophic agricultural failure in China and victimized tens of millions of Chinese peasants. It argues that Khrushchev’s 1957 boast about the Soviet Union surpassing the United States in key...

...Greg Donaghy; Michael D. Stevenson Abstract Although Canada was a committed member of the western alliance and publically supported Washington, DC’s efforts to isolate communist China, Ottawa embarked on large-scale wheat sales to Beijing in the late 1950s in the face of sustained US opposition...

..., Californiaa,nd othersouthwestersntatesanticipateand planforthelikely shortagesto come. RobertW.Adler Universitoyf Utah Global The Dragon and theElephant:Agriculturaalnd Rural Reformsin China and India. Edited byAshok Gulati and ShenggenFan. Baltimore:Johns HopkinsUniversityPress,2008.576 pp38.00,paperback...

...Judith Shapiro Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union . By Felix Wemheuer . New Haven : Yale University Press , 2014 . 344 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-300-19581-1 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Agricultural History Fall explanations...

...Mark Swislocki Food and Environment in Early and Medieval China . By E. N. Anderson . Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press , 2014 . 352 pp., $45.50 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8122-4638-4 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015 2015 Book Reviews Asia Food...

...David Bello Coping with Calamity: Environmental Change and Peasant Response in Central China, 1736–1949 . By Jiayan Zhang . Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press , 2014 . 292 pp., $35.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-7748-2596-2 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2015...

...Yan Gao The Yellow River: The Problem of Water in Modern China . By David A. Pietz . Cambridge : Harvard University Press , 2015 . 384 pp., $35.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-674-05824-8. © 2016 Agricultural History Society 2016 Agricultural History Winter on artificial...

...Ian Matthew Miller The Making of a New Rural Order in South China: I. Village, Land, and Lineage in Huizhou, 900–1600 . By Joseph P. McDermott . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2014 . 480 pp., $99.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-10704-622-1 . © the Agricultural History...

...Karl Gerth Golden-Silk Smoke: A History of Tobacco in China, 1550–2010 . By Carol Benedict . Berkeley : University of California Press , 2011 . 352 pp., $49.95 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-520-26277-5 . © the Agricultural History Society, 2012 2012 2012 Book Reviews Fitting shows...

...David Pattinson Abstract The archaeological evidence for human consumption of honey in China dates back to the seventh millennium BCE, while the earliest reference to beekeeping is in a third century CE biography of a reclusive scholar who kept bees during the mid-second century. Based mainly upon...

...Emily M. Hill Red Revolution, Green Revolution: Scientific Farming in Socialist China . By Sigrid Schmalzer . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2016 . 320 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-2263-3015-0 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 585 India...

...Yongguang Hu Bound Feet, Young Hands: Tracking the Demise of Footbinding in Village China . By Laurel Bossen and Hill Gates . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2017 . 264 pp., $45.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8047-9955-3 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book...

...Ruth Mostern The River, The Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China (1048–1128) . By Ling Zhang . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2016 . 333 pp., $80.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-1-1071-5598-5 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 428...

...René Trappel Negotiating Rural Land Ownership in Southwest China: State, Village, Family . By Yi Wu . Honolulu : University of Hawai’i Press , 2016 . 302 pp., $65.00 , hardback, ISBN 978-0-8248-4677-1 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 Book Reviews 431 practice...

...E. N. Anderson Bitter and Sweet: Food, Meaning, and Modernity in Rural China . By Ellen Oxfeld . Oakland : University of California Press , 2017 . 280 pp., $34.95 , paperback, ISBN 978-0-5205-9352-6 . © 2018 Agricultural History Society 2018 Book Reviews 271 Book Reviews Asia...