Water and Land: Changing Landscapes and Diminishing Resources in China

Ling Zhang is assistant professor at Boston College. Zhang studies the environmental, economic, and political history of pre-modern China. Her current research interests focus on the environmental and ecological history of the Yellow River, and the comparative history of rivers in traditional agrarian societies in Asia. She has finished a book manuscript that is entitled The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental and Economic History of Hebei, 1048-1128.