중국의 생태환경사 연구동향

The Research Trends of Ecological and Environmental History in China

In China, the study of Ecological and Environment History began in the middle of the 20th century. It became an academic discipline that attracts attention from the East and West academia. Since China’s reformation and opening door policy, the researches have developed rapidly. It reflects that China has serious problems on the environmental circumstances. These researches can make the government and the public pay more attention to the environmental issues. It has been established in harmony with the existing achievements of the Chinese historical studies. Due to the efforts of leading scholars on this area, the achievements of the West were introduced into Chinese and the environmental history books are being published in series since the 2000s. Some universities established research centers and institutes to study exclusively the ecological and environmental history.