Micah S. Muscolino is professor and Paul G. Pickowicz Endowed Chair in modern Chinese history at the University of California San Diego. He is author of three books, Remaking the Earth, Exhausting the People: The Burden of Conservation in Modern China (Washington, 2025), The Ecology of War in China: Henan Province, the Yellow River, and Beyond, 1938-1950 (Cambridge, 2014), and Fishing Wars and Environmental Change in Late Imperial and Modern China (Harvard,2009).