Introduction: a short history of nature conservation in China -- A mountain mosaic: biological and cultural diversity -- Lord of the hundred beasts: a history of tigers and people in southeast China -- The wealth of mountains: settlement, subsistence, and population change in Meihuashan before 1949 -- Three rises, two falls: political ecology and socioeconomic development in Meihuashan after 1949 -- Burning the mountains: a historical landscape ecology of the Meihuashan ecosystem -- Habitat conservation in the post-reform landscape -- White tigers and Azure dragons: Fengshui forests, sacred space, and the preservation of biodiversity in village landscapes -- Eating from the mountain: hunting traditions, the wildlife trade, and wildlife management -- Vital connections: linking nature conservation and cultural ecology in southeast China and beyond
