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ISBN 10: 1605983489
ISBN 13: 9781605983486
Author: Henry Nicholls
Learn how the extraordinary impact of the panda―from obscurity to fame―is also the story of China’s transition from shy beginnings to center stage.
Giant pandas have been causing a stir ever since their formal scientific discovery just over 140 years ago. Yet in spite of humankind’s evident obsession with the giant panda, it is only in the last few decades that scientific research has begun to show us what this mysterious, frequently misunderstood creature is really like.
Henry Nicholls uses the rich and curious history of the giant panda to do several things: to ponder our changing attitudes toward the natural world; to offer a compelling history of the conservation movement; and to chart the rise of modern China on its journey to become the self-sufficient, twenty-first-century superpower it is today.
Part I: From Imperial China to the Cold War
The Chinese Puzzle
Missionary Naturalists and the Discovery of the Panda
Gifts and Diplomacy: The Panda Goes West
The First Panda Craze
Panda Diplomacy and the Cold War Zoo
Part II: Conservation, Culture, and Commerce
6. Saving the Panda: From Symbol to Cause
7. Brand Panda: Global Icons and Local Realities
8. The Economics of Endangerment
9. Panda Politics and the Environment
Part III: The Panda in the Modern World
10. The Panda as Propaganda
11. Beyond the Bamboo Curtain
12. The Future of the Panda
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Tags: Henry Nicholls, Panda, Curious
