An additional resource kindly recommended by Judith Shapiro is the excellent syllabus by Emily Yeh and Mark Henderson, for a course taught at UC Berkeley several years ago:
Yeh, Emily, and Mark Henderson. (2002). "China's Environment: History, Policy, Sustainability." Course syllabus, with readings. Dept. of Env. Science, Policy, and Management (ESPM), Univ. Calif. at Berkeley. Available: http://spot.colorado.edu/~yehe/ChinaEnvironmentSyllabus.html Kind regards, David