Volume 48, Number 16 · October 18, 2001
China's Assault on the Environment
By Jonathan Mirsky
Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China
by Judith Shapiro
Cambridge University Press, 287 pp., $59.95; $18.95 (paper)
Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century
by Vaclav Smil
MIT Press, 360 pp., $32.95
In 1956 Chairman Mao wrote the poem 'Swimming,' about a dam to be built across the Yangtze River. This is its second stanza:
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