Note to reader:
The original, longer version of this paper which contains considerably more relevant art work is entitled “Art and the Pearl River Delta Environment”. The paper was originally presented at the International Symposium on Environment and Society in Chinese History, Center for Chinese Social History, Nankai University, Tianjin, PRC, August 17–19, 2005; and can be viewed at http://www.fas.org/blog/china. Cited 7 Jan 2009. The reader may wish to look to the longer version for further evidence to support the arguments presented in the narrative form in this shorter version.
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Parham, W.E. (2010). Deforestation and Erosion Captured in Historical Art of the Pearl River Delta Region, China. In: Landa, E., Feller, C. (eds) Soil and Culture. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2960-7_2
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