In Search of Green China is a book. It tells the story of China’s thirty-year struggle to clean up its befouled water, air and soil through the eyes of the movers and shakers who have shaped that journey.

More than just a book, this story continues beyond its pages, highlighting the ongoing global significance of China's green transformation in the face of climate change, biodiversity loss, and environmental degradation, all of which call for solutions, hopefully at scale.

Some of the themes explored in the book, such as the political economy that has propelled China’s spectacular economic rise and has driven equally mind-boggling pollutions, remain central to the Chinese environmental narrative, even though the nature of that political economy has shifted. Likewise, the developmentalist mentality that spurred the taking-off of Chinese low-carbon technologies such as solar panels and EVs continues to challenge the conventional regulatory approach to environmental protection, redrawing the boundary between industrial policy and conservation efforts.

Tracking the ongoing evolution of these themes and China’s laborious journey towards an "ecological civilization" is essential.  That’s the raison d’etre of the In Search of Green China website, a space for those interested in following the storyline to keep the search going.

Welcome aboard!