RCCHC "Science, Technology, Society and Culture" Talk Series 18 - Rocks that Made Bodies: Doing Environmental History by Following Things

Ling Zhang is a University Associate Professor in Classical Chinese and Middle-Period China in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Cambridge and a Fellow and College Lecturer of Gonville and Caius College. She is a historian of Chinese economy, environment, political ecology, and history of science and technology. She is the author of The River, the Plain, and the State: An Environmental Drama in Northern Song China (Cambridge University Press, 2016), recipient of the 2017 George Perkins Marsh Prize for the Best Book in Environmental History from the American Society for Environmental History. With John McNeill, she co-edits the book series "Studies in Environment and History" published by Cambridge University Press.