[The China Project] The monk vs. the tigers: A story of Chinese environmental change[The China Project] The monk vs. the tigers: A story of Chinese environmental change
[The China Project] The monk vs. the tigers: A story of Chinese environmental change
A compassionate monk arrived at an abandoned temple near Hangzhou with the task of making the area safe from tiger attacks. His tactics weren’t groundbreaking, but his results — at least for historians — tell us more about the region than we could have otherwise known.