international trade and biodiversity
conservation 81, 154
International Union for the Conservation
of Nature (IUCN) 42, 43, 49,
64n10, 100–101, 109, 121, 128, 222
Internet 1, 89, 173, 212
invasive species 11, 58, 62
investment strikes 143, 224
Jahiel, Abigail R. 72
Japan 25
Jiang Zemin 29
Jilin Province 46
Kenting National Park 124
Kunming 211
Kuomintang (KMT) 12, 25, 31, 35, 161,
166, 195, 203, 205, 231
Kyoto Protocol 74, 205
lakes 27, 58
land 107, 108, 128
Lao Tzu 20
Laojunshan 52
law seecompliance
ambiguities in 69, 71, 85, 93
comment on draft measures 183,
201–7
environmental 69–71
lobbying activities and 183, 200–201,
203, 212
see alsolegislative framework
lawsuits, environmental 177
Lee Tenghui 31
Lee, Yok-shiu F. 37n42
legal framework in China 68–78, 222
action plans 75–6
international conventions 72–5, 93–4
national law 68–71
national regulations 71–2, 101, 107
revisions to law 75–8
legal framework in Taiwan, 222
international conventions 81–3, 94
legislation 78–81, 93, 124
legalism 20
Legislative Yuan (Taiwan) 79, 203
Li Bing 23–4
Li Peng 73
Liang Congjie 176
Liang Qichao 176
Liao Xiaoyi 177, 183
Liao Yung-lai 146
Lieberthal, Kenneth 141, 193
Lin Yuan industrial zone 144–5
Liu Jianguo 50
lobbying 183, 212
local governments 85–6, 92–3, 98n60,
118, 137, 195, 196, 198, 200, 206,
208, 222
local officials 85, 86, 92, 118, 185, 198,
200, 206–7
logging 9, 53, 57, 58, 66n57, 71, 126
Lop Nur Wild Camel Nature Reserve
102, 147
Lord Shang 20
Lu Meng 182
Luo Gang 172–3Ma Qiusha 184
Ma Xiaoying and Leonard Ortolano 71
Ma Yingchu 26–7
Mackinnon, John 5
Magao Chinese Cypress National Park
123, 125–8
mangrove forests 58–9, 70
see alsowetlands
Mao era 13, 25–8, 154
population growth 27
propaganda 25–6
Mao Zedong 25–8
conception of nature 27, 28
view of population 27
Mao’s War Against Nature: Politics
and the Environment in
Revolutionary China(Shapiro)
26–8
marine pollution 10–11, 59
see alsocritical habitat
market-based reforms 12, 70, 77, 143,
171
mass line 25
mayors 85
media 88–9, 181–2
assistance to NGOs 89, 182
censorship 182, 213, 214
environmental advocacy 88–9, 168,
181–2, 212–13
environmentalist use of 89, 164, 176,
212
influence of 60, 80, 181, 212238 Index