| Book Review | Environmental History, 12.2

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Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan. By Robert P. Weller. Cambridge, New York, Melbourne, Madrid, Cape Town, Singapore, and São Paulo: Cambridge University Press, 2006. viii + 189 pp. Includes illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth $70.00, paper $27.99.

For over a century, China and Taiwan have had widely divergent political and economic histories, yet a comparison of their responses to the environmental challenges caused by extraordinary economic development over the recent past shows remarkable similarities. Why is that? Robert P. Weller, an anthropologist with field experience in both Taiwan and China (and hence with excellent Chinese language skills), proceeds in this brief but fine book to explore indigenous cultural traditions, twentieth-century globalization, and the different political and economic systems of China and Taiwan as possible explanations. Weller concludes that shared cultural traditions outweighed political and economic differences as people and elites in China and Taiwan fashioned understandings of environmental change over the past twenty years.

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