1 "Firs and Pines a Hundred Spans Round": The Natural Environment of Lingnan
2 "All Deeply Forested and Wild Places Are Not Malarious": Human Settlement and Ecological Change in Lingnan, 2-1400 CE
3 "Agriculture Is the Foundation": Economic Recovery and Development of Lingnan during the Ming Dynasty, 1368-1644
4 "All the People Have Fled": War and the Environment in the Mid-Seventeenth-Century Crisis, 1644-83
5 "Rich Households Compete to Build Ships": Overseas Trade and Economic Recovery
6 "It Never Used to Snow": Climate Change and Agricultural Productivity
7 "There Is Only a Certain Amount of Grain Produced": Granaries and the Role of the State in the Food Supply System
8 "Trade in Rice Is Brisk": Market Integration and the Environment
9 "Population Increases Daily, but the Land Does Not": Land Clearance in Eighteenth Century
10 "People Said that Extinction Was Not Possible": The Ecological Consequences of Land Clearance
Conclusion