This article looks at how the ongoing processes of border-making are experienced and negotiated by the ethnic minorities who live in the Himalayan mountain peripheries.
State of the World 2006 provides a special focus on China and India and their impact on the world as major consumers of resources and polluters of local and global ecosystems.
This film follows a seventeen-year-old Chinese girl who leaves home in order to work in a Chinese jeans factory.
This film captures the rise of China’s influence in Africa and in Zambia in particular, through the lives of three individuals: a Chinese entrepreneur, a project manager for a Chinese multinational and the Zambian Minister for Commerce, Trade and Industry.
Fei Sheng analyzes the ecological factors in China that spurred migration to Australia at a time when the discovery of gold as a natural resource made the country an ideal migration destination. He shows how Chinese migrants applied their environmental experience in a white settler colony.
David Bello explores the fraught struggle between humans and locusts for occupancy of the agricultural niches created by farmers during China’s Qing dynasty.
This monograph explores the history of the use of human excrement as agricultural fertilizer in China.
