AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Cultivated Forest / Ian M. Miller, Bradley Camp Davis, and John S. Lee ixChapter 1. Deforestation in Early China: How People Adapted to Wood Scarcity / Brian LanderChapter 2. Forestry by Contract: Knowledge, Ownership, and the Written Record in South China / Ian M. MillerChapter 3. Fighting over Nature: Resource Disputes in Central Japan during an Age of Instability, 1475–1635 / John Elijah BenderChapter 4. The Sylvan Local: The Pine Protection Kye in Late Chosŏn Korea, 1700–1900 / John S. LeeChapter 5. Frontier Timber in Southwest China: Market, Empire, and Identity / Meng ZhangChapter 6. Splintered Habitats: The Fragmentation of Ecotone Northern China’s Imperial Woodland Complexes / David A. BelloChapter 7. Camphor, Celluloid, and Colonialism: The Dutch East Indies and Colonial Taiwan in Comparative Perspective / Faizah ZakariaChapter 8. Modern Trees for Backward China: Arbor Day and the Struggle against Ecological "Backwardness" in Republican China, 1911–1937 / Larissa PittsChapter 9. Sunny Slopes Are Good for Grain, Shady Slopes Are Good for Trees: Nuosu Yi Agroforestry in Southwestern Sichuan / Stevan Harrell, Amanda H. Schmidt, Brian D. Collins, R. Keala Hagmann, and Thomas M. HinckleyGlossaries of Plant Names and Non-RomanCharactersBibliographyList of ContributorsIndex