Center for Asian Studies Hosts Panel Discussion on East Asian Environmental History
On April 23, 2021, the Center for Asian Studies sponsored a panel discussion titled “New Directions in East Asian Environmental History” that featured the authors of three recent books that have appeared in the University of Washington Press’ Weyerhaeuser Environmental Books series edited by CU Boulder History Professor Paul Sutter. Sutter moderated a discussion that featured David Fedman of UC Irvine and author of Seeds of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea, Jakobina Arch of Whitman College and author of Bringing Whales Ashore: Oceans and the Environment in Early Modern Japan, and Ian M. Miller of St. John’s University and author of Fir and Empire: The Transformation of Forests in Early Modern China. The Zoom panel was featured as part of the American Society for Environmental History’s “Environmental History Week” festivities and was attended by an audience of approximately fifty people, including CU faculty, students, CAS community members, and members of the public from throughout the United States and, indeed, the world.