Studies on China's Environment

China Quarterly

Volumn 156, Issue , 1998, Pages 725-732

  Edmonds, Richard Louis ^a  

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EID: 85012551219     PISSN: 03057410     EISSN: 14682648     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0305741000051316     Document Type: Article

References (9)

1. Quoted in “Japan: China's largest donor,” China Environmental Review, Vol. 1, No. 3 (1998), p. 11.
2. I have noted elsewhere (R. L. Edmonds, Patterns of China's Lost Harmony (London: Routledge, 1994), pp. 228–230) that water pollution was China's first environmental focus due to clear public health concerns and water shortage problems on the North China Plain. This is essentially part of the economic argument. Yet one must remember that water was seen as a crucial agricultural life-giving component in traditional Chinese culture and, with a government which was very seriously concerned with feeding its population in the early years of the People's Republic, agricultural values must have helped put water pollution high on the early pollution agenda in China.
3. One example of this stereotyping can be seen in Frank Ching, “China's attitude to the rest,” Far Eastern Economic Review, Vol. 161, No. 28 (1998), p. 32.
4. Rhoads Murphey, “Man and nature in China,” Modern Asian Studies, Vol. 1 (1967), p. 319.
5. Koon-Kwai Wong and Hon S. Chan, “The environmental awareness of environmental protection bureaucrats in the People's Republic of China,” The Environmentalist, No. 16 (1996), p. 215.
6. Koon-Kwai Wong and Hon S. Chan, “The environmental awareness,” p. 215.
7. For more on the Guangzhou case see Hon S. Chan and Kenneth K. K. Wong, “Environmental attitudes and concerns of the environmental protection bureaucrats in Guangzhou, People's Republic of China: implications for environmental policy implementation,” International Journal of Public Administration, Vol 17, No. 8 (1994), pp. 1523–1554.
8. Koon-Kwai Wong and Hon S. Chan, “The environmental awareness,” p. 218.
9. This view was described by Tim O'Riordan, Environmentalism (London: Psion, 1981), pp. 376–377, as “technocentrism.”