1. Yu Runze, ‘Vice Premier Li Keqiang Vows to Combat Air Pollution’, Sina English, 15 January 2013, cited in Elizabeth Economy, ‘Environmental Governance in China: State Control to Crisis Management’, Daedalus: Journal of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences 143, no. 2 (Spring 2014): 187.
2. Vaclav Smil, China’s Past, China’s Future: Energy, Food, Environment (New York and London: Routledge Curzon, 2004), 145.
3. Jack Goody, The Theft of History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006);
4. Robert B. Marks, The Origins of the Modern World: A Global and Ecological History from the Fifteenth to the Twenty-First Century (Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2007).
5. General works which include strong consideration of environmental dimensions in East Asian modernization include: Mark Elvin, The Pattern of the Chinese Past: A Social and Economic Interpretation (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1973);