1/6/2024 0 Comments Come as you are songster![]() "In this delightfully crafted study, Songster reveals how the cuddly panda" - ignored in traditional China and dismissed by scientists as an evolutionary fluke Upper-division undergraduates through faculty and professionals." - Choice The book will serve well in environmental history, international conservation, and China studies classes. ![]() "Demonstrates that conservation history of the giant panda has been shaped not only by science and research, but also, and maybe more significantly, by political, economic, and sociocultural factors. The book would be quite suitable for a non-China specialist or an undergraduate environmental history course." - Zach Smith, Agricultural History Songster's accessible and well-organized account historicizes this phenomenon at both a local and global scale, making it essential reading for scholars of ecotourism, Chinese environmental history, and diplomatic history. "Even those immune to the supposed charms of this charismatic megafauna must acknowledge the panda's place at the pinnacle of both Chinese national symbolism and international relief efforts. "How did the giant panda, a shy creature rarely seen in the wild, not hunted for meat, and all but missing from historical texts, come to serve as a political tool for China's national pride, international diplomacy, and soft power projection? In answering this question, Songster draws on cultural history, archives, field research in Pingwu, news articles, scientific monographs, and interviews with some of the pioneers of giant panda biology and conservation." - Judith Shapiro, Environmental History To all of them, and in fact to readers looking for an unusual entry into modern Chinese history per se, Panda Nation can be highly recommended." - Hajo Frölich, H-Soz-Kult "By choosing instead to tell the multi-faceted story of how humans constructed and conserved this particular species, Songster is able to speak to a much wider audience interested in China's political, social, cultural and environmental history. "Songster's much anticipated book Panda Nation: The Construction and Conservation of China's Modern Icon admirably fills a gap in the historiography of China's environment by tracing the giant panda's post-1949 emergence as a Chinese national icon and a global symbol of wildlife conservation.Songster's book.will reward anyone, from undergraduates to senior scholars, with an interest in how the panda gained its iconic status, and how that story relates to modern Chinese history more generally." - Micah Muscolino, American Historical Review ![]() It is also a valuable contribution to Chinese conservation and environmental history, illuminating the complex interactions of science, nature, and the nation in the PRC." - Kyuhyun Han, University of California, H-Net Reviews "Songster's book provides a concise, intriguing, and convincing narrative for both scholarly and public readers interested in the political, cultural, scientific, and environmental history of giant pandas. Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public Health.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.
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