University of Washington Press

How mega-dams, industrial agriculture, and other developments challenge ecosystem resilience

An Ecological History of Modern China

By Stevan Harrell

A probe of the environmental and sociocultural effects of industrialization and nuclear disaster on coastal livelihoods

Fukushima Futures

Survival Stories in a Repeatedly Ruined Seascape

By Satsuki Takahashi

Reveals how imperial power and local resistance have shaped landscapes

Ecologies of Empire in South Asia, 1400-1900

By Sumit Guha. Foreword by K. Sivaramakrishnan

Highlights new directions in the field and topics of interest to undergraduate students

Sustaining Natures

An Environmental Anthropology Reader

Edited by Sarah R. Osterhoudt and K. Sivaramakrishnan

A comparative analysis of body politics, selfhood, and the pursuit of consumer-based agency

Modified Bodies, Material Selves

Beauty Ideals in Post-Reform Shanghai

By Julie E. Starr

A riveting tale of danger, adventure, and connection

Miscellany of the South Seas

A Chinese Scholar’s Chronicle of Shipwreck and Travel through 1830s Vietnam

By Cai Tinglan. Translated by Kathlene Baldanza and Zhao Lu.

Reimagining the idea of home for our unsettled times

Dreamhome

Stories of Art and Shelter

By Justin Paton

The first genre-spanning study of how Chinese cultural creativity flourished during the long final century of the Qing empire

China’s Hidden Century

1796-1912

Edited by Jessica Harrison-Hall and Julia Lovell

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In 1986 the Khian Sea, carrying thousands of tons of incinerator ash from Philadelphia, began a two-year journey, roaming the world’s oceans in search of a dumping ground. Its initial destination and then country after country refused to accept the waste. The ship ended up dumping part of its load in Haiti under false pretenses, […]