| UNIT | DAILY TOPICS |
| I. INTRODUCTION READINGS |
5 Jan M: Organization of class Introduction to China's geography 7 Jan W: Spatial models of China |
| II. FOOD, WATER, LAND READINGS |
12 Jan M: Dietary ecology 14 Jan W: Agricultural technology and production |
| III. THE POPULATION "BOMB" READINGS PAPER ASSIGNMENT |
21 Jan W: Technical demography 26 Jan M: Policy and Institutions 28 Jan W: Planned birth: horror and necessity? |
| IV. SOCIALISM AND ENVIRONMENTAL REVOLUTION READINGS PAPER ASSIGNMENT |
2 Feb M: Socialism as "high modernism" Socialism and development seen comparatively 4 Feb W: The Great Leap Forward: Excitement and commitment... and Famine |
| V. CURRENT PROBLEMS: WATER READINGS PAPER ASSIGNMENT |
9 Feb M: Issues of the Sanxia dam 11 Feb W: Issues of the south to north transfer |
| VI. CURRENT PROBLEMS: POLLUTION READINGS PAPER ASSIGNMENT |
18 Feb W: Like lambs to the slaughter 23 Feb M: The costs of cleanup |
| VII. BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION READINGS PAPER ASSIGNMENT |
25 Feb W: An Old Story, a New Story 1 Mar M: Ethnicity, Tourism, and "Environment" |
| VIII. ENVIRONMENTAL CONSCIOUSNESS READINGS PAPER ASSIGNMENT |
3 Mar W: Wildlife NGOs Student consciousness 8 Mar M: The implications of Taiwan Bureaucratic and authoritarian obstacles |
| IX. CONCLUSION READING |
10 Mar W: Any hope? Where? |