Exile from the Grasslands
Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects
Inbunden, Engelska, 2020
Av Jarmila Ptáčková, Jarmila Ptackova, Jarmila Ptáčková, Stevan Harrell
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Reconstructing lifeways on the Tibetan PlateauOpen-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748207At the beginning of the new millennium, the Chinese government launched the Great Opening of the West, a development strategy targeted at remote areas inhabited mainly by indigenous ethnic groups. Intended to modernize infrastructure and halt environmental degradation, its tactics in western China have resulted in the displacement of pastoral Tibetans to urban residence and sedentary livelihoods, causing massive social and economic shifts and uncertainty and eventually leading to signs of discontent in ethnically Tibetan regions. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork, Exile from the Grasslands documents the viewpoints of both the people affected—Tibetan pastoralists in Qinghai Province—and the Chinese officials charged with relocating and settling them in newly constructed housing projects. As China's international influence expands, the welfare of its ethnic minorities and its handling of environmental issues are receiving close media scrutiny. Jarmila Ptáčkova's study documents a politically and ecologically significant process that is happening—unlike events in Lhasa or Xinjiang—largely outside the view of the wider world.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum2020-12-15
- Mått152 x 229 x undefined mm
- Vikt431 g
- FormatInbunden
- SpråkEngelska
- SerieStudies on Ethnic Groups in ChinaStudies on Ethnic Groups in ChinaStudies on Ethnic Groups in ChinaStudies on Ethnic Groups in ChinaStudies on Ethnic Groups in ChinaExile from the Grasslands
- Antal sidor188
- FörlagUniversity of Washington Press
- ISBN9780295748184
- UtmärkelserCommended for Central Eurasian Studies Society Book Award 2021 (United States)