Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: A Short History of Nature Conservation in China -- Part I. The Southeast Uplands: People, Landscapes, and Wildlife -- 2. A Mountain Mosaic: Biodiversity, Cultural Diversity, and Land Degradation in the Southeast Uplands -- 3. Lord of the Hundred Beasts: A History of Tigers and People in Southeast China -- Part II. The Tiger and the Pangolin: An Environmental History of the Plumflower Mountains -- 4. The Wealth of Mountains: Settlement, Subsistence, and Population Change in Meihuashan before 1949 -- 5. Three Rises, Two Falls: Political Ecology and Socioeconomic Development in Meihuashan after 1949 -- 6. Burning the Mountains: A Historical Landscape Ecology of the Meihuashan Ecosystem -- Part III. Contemporary Village Resource Management and Nature Conservation Strategies -- 7. Habitat Conservation in the Post-Reform Landscape -- 8. White Tigers and Azure Dragons: Fengshui Forests, Sacred Space, and the Preservation of Biodiversity in Village Landscapes -- 9. Eating from the Mountain: Hunting Traditions, the Wildlife Trade, and Wildlife Management -- 10. Vital Connections: Linking Nature Conservation and Cultural Ecology in Southeast China and Beyond -- Appendix -- Notes -- Glossary of Selected Chinese Terms -- References -- Index -- About the Author -- Color plates follow page 148.