Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River

Where the Dragon Meets the Angry River is an incisive look at the possible fates of China and the planet. Will the Nujiang River continue to flow? Will Tibetan girls from subsistence farming families learn to read and write? Can China and the United States come together to lead action on climate change? Far-reaching in its history and scope, this unique book shows us the real-world consequences of conservation and development decisions now being made in Beijing and beyond.

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R. Edward Grumbine is the author of Ghost Bears (Island Press, 1992). He teaches environmental studies at Prescott College and directed the Sierra Institute, University of California Extension, Santa Cruz, for more than a decade.

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Introduction

Chapter 1. The Highest Good

Chapter 2. The Frontier and the Middle Kingdom

Chapter 3. Under the Jade Dragon

Chapter 4. Old Mountains, Young Parks

Chapter 5. In the Land of Twelve Thousand Rice Fields

Chapter 6. Into the Great Green Triangle

Chapter 7. The Dragon Meets the Angry River

Chapter 8. China 2020

Chapter 9. Conservation with Chinese CharacteristicsNotes

Quotation references

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index.

Notes

Quotation references

Bibliography

Acknowledgments

Index.