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[email protected] This title is available online at press.anu.edu.au ISSN 2205-3204 (print) ISSN 2205-3212 (online) Printed by Griffin Press Cover design and layout by ANU Press. Cover image: Wynston Cooper, Reflections of Jade, March 2009. Image of Lan Yuan 蘭園: A Garden of Distant Longing, Dunedin, New Zealand. Image kindly reproduced with the permission of Wynston Cooper. © 2015 ANU Press Editor: James Beattie, History, University of Waikato & Research Associate, Centre for Environmental History, About the Journal The Australian National University International Review of Environmental History takes an interdisciplinary and global approach to environmental history. It publishes on all thematic and geographical topics of environmental history, but Associate Editor: especially encourages articles with perspectives focused on or developed from the southern hemisphere and the ‘global south’. This includes but is not limited to Australasia, East and South East Asia, Africa and Brett M. Bennett, University of Western Sydney South America. Editorial Board: International Review of Environmental History’s editorial board includes historians, scientists, and geographers who work on environmental history and the related disciplines of garden history and • Maohong Bao包茂宏, Peking University • Tom Isern, North Dakota State University landscape studies. This methodological breadth distinguishes International Review of Environmental • Greg Barton, University of Western Sydney • Nancy Jacobs, Brown University History from other environmental history journals, as does its attempt to draw together cognate research • Tom Brooking, University of Otago • Ryan Tucker Jones, University of Auckland areas in garden history and landscape studies.