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This paper is the second part of an exploration into the history and meaning of landscapes, based on a case study of the "must-see" scenic spots or Eight Views (bajing ??) of Linfen County in the south of China's Shanxi province. While the first part focused on the value of these iconic landscapes as sources of identity, here I will show how their aesthetic appreciation is intrinsically linked to their productive power. I argue that it was largely the idea of productivity that made these landscapes amenable for aesthetic consumption and viable as sources of identity and meaning. It was the inherent instability of these productive aspects that made their aesthetic appreciation even more significant, as it ultimately depended on the precarious balance between the two.

Gutenberg in Shanghai is a book about the industrial revolution in China's print culture and the ensuing rise of print capitalism 'with Chinese characteristics.' It offers a coherent and unique account of the introduction, adaptation and eventual imitation of modern, i.e. Western, print technology in China, with the aim of establishing the material basis on which to study the transition of China's ancient literary culture into the industrial age. It reconstructs the history of print technology from the first cast type matrices to the adaptation of the electrotype process, from photo-lithography to the colour-offset press, from the platen press to the rotary printing press, and tells the stories of three of the most dominant lithograph and letterpress publishers of the late Qing and the early Republican period respectively. This is a worthwhile undertaking, exploring an aspect of modern publishing in China, which hitherto has not received the attention it deserves. The study is based on missionary writings, personal reminiscences, collections of source materials, documents on the early book printers' trade organizations from the Shanghai Municipal Archives, and oral history materials (interviews conducted during the 1950s with former printing workshops apprentices). The bibliography also lists a couple of interviews, but unfortunately it is not clear how relevant they are to the story told in the book.The introduction of lithography into Shanghai by Jesuit missionaries in 1876 plays a pivotal role in this account. Lithography, especially photolithography coming a few years later, was a technology particularly suited to Chinese needs and cheaper than traditional wood-block printing.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of maps -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Introduction -- PART I Landscape organization -- 1 Borders and mosaics, east and west: landscape organization in environmental history -- Commentary -- Commentary -- Commentary -- PART II Managing the rivers -- 2 Writing the 20th-century history of water on the North China Plain -- 3 Land use change in a mountainous area during the past 300 years from the perspective of the spatial evolution of settlements: the case of the Zhangjiu River Basin in Yunnan Province, China -- 4 Taming the blind snake: flooding disasters and river regulation of the Zengwen River in colonial Taiwan -- PART III Land use and food production -- 5 Transformation through inundation: riziculturing Muslim identity in Qing Dynasty Khotan -- 6 The role of plant factories on food production and technology in Japan -- PART IV Development of eco-cities -- 7 Eco-city development in Japan -- 8 Ecological construction in coastal Southeast China -- 9 Building the sustainable city of Yilan: the development of environmental governance learning capacity -- PART V Folk belief and environment -- 10 Nature worship and the environment in Song China -- 11 The mountain spirits and lake monsters of Xinjiang Province during the Qing Dynasty -- Index

1. Introduction / Andrea Janku, Gerrit J. Schenk, Franz Mauelshagen -- 2. Roman emperors and 'natural disasters' in the first century A.D. / Mischa Meier -- 3. Managing natural hazards : environment, society, and politics in Tuscany and the Upper Rhine Valley in the Renaissance (ca. 1270-1570) / Gerrit J. Schenk -- 4. Acts of God : the confessionalization of disaster in reformation Europe / Elaine Fulton -- 5. The struggle against the sea : an early modern coastal society between metaphysical and physical attempts to control nature / Marie Luisa Allemeyer -- 6. Earthquakes in early modern France : from the old regime to the birth of a new risk / Gr Oegory Quenet -- 7. The doomsday discourse in the earth and planetary sciences, 1700-present / Nicolaas A. Rupke -- 8. Forgotten risks : mass movements in the mountains / Andreas Dix -- 9. Shaping the city : Aleppo's foreigner community and the earthquake of 1822 / Stefan Knost -- 10. Earthquake versus fire : the struggle over insurance in the aftermath of the 1906 San Francisco disaster / Eleonora Rohland -- 11. Mediating foreign disasters : the Los Angeles Times and international relief, 1891-1914 / Gordon M. Winder -- 12. From natural to national disaster : the Chinese famine of 1928-1930 / Andrea Janku -- 13. Climate catastrophism : the history of the future of climate change / Franz Mauelshagen.