The award-winning book from Professor David Fedman, a historian at the University of California Irvine, is a thoroughly researched journey through the fascinating history of a perhaps less familiar aspect of colonial Korea. The book begins with a foreword by Paul S. Sutter (University of Colorado Boulder) that informs readers of the many complexities of the historical developments related to forest management, policy, research, and economics during Korea's colonial period. The Japanese occupiers were not merely concerned with enlarging business opportunities and profit from the extensive forests on the Korean penin-sula, but also with cultural and political functions of forests and the landscape. The following ten chapters skillfully interpret developments related to forests and nature in Meiji era Japan (1868-1912) and take readers to the most recent shift in the forest industry in Korea.
