Judith Shapiro
Auteur van Mao's War against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China
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Judith Shapiro directs the Dual Masters in Natural Resources and Sustainable Development for the School of International Service at American University. Her website is judithshapiro.com
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Author Judith Shapiro has collected a tremendous amount of information, culling from newspapers and blogs in order to inform "China's Environmental Challenges." What is left is a book that is for students and theorists, replete with academic and sociological jargon.
Readers expecting on-the-ground reporting, interviews, or case studies will be disappointed. Shapiro clearly knows her subject very well, but it is presented as a warehouse of information, devoid of humans. Having long passed my scholarly days, I found this book pedantic. Perhaps this is my fault because I expected more reporting and less academic shoptalk.… (meer)