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<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><strong style="font-size:18px;background-color:rgb(251, 251, 251)">Comparative Perspectives on Environmental History in Asia</strong></span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Three leading scholars in Asian environmental history discuss their respective perspectives focusing on China, Korea/Japan, and southeast Asia, moderated by
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Professor of History, UC Riverside, and author of</span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>Footprints of War: Militarized
Landscapes in Vietnam</em></span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(University of Washington Press, 2018)</span><span style="font-size:14px"><br>
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</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>David Fedman</strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Assistant Professor of History, UC Irvine, and author of</span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>Seeds
of Control: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Colonial Korea</em></span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(University of Washington
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</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>Meng Zhang</strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Assistant Professor of History, Loyola Marymount University, and author of</span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><em>Timber
and Forestry in Qing China: Sustaining the Market</em></span><span style="font-size:14px"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">(University of Washington Press,
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</span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><strong>Qitao Guo</strong></span><span style="font-size: 14px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">, Associate Professor of History, UC Irvine, and Director of UCI Center for Asian
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Professor at the Law School, UCLA, a leading specialist in Chinese environmental law</span></span><br>
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