Taming Tibet : Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development.
Yeh, Emily.
Taming Tibet : Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (343 pages)
Taming Tibet -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Note on Transliterations and Place Names -- Abbreviations and Terms -- Introduction -- A Celebration -- 1. State Space: Power, Fear, and the State of Exception -- Hearing and Forgetting -- Part I. Soil -- The Aftermath of 2008 (I) -- 2. Cultivating Control: Nature, Gender, and Memories of Labor in State Incorporation -- Part II. Plastic -- Lhasa Humor -- 3. Vectors of Development: Migrants and the Making of "Little Sichuan" -- Signs of Lhasa -- 4. The Micropolitics of Marginalization -- Science and Technology Transfer Day -- 5. Indolence and the Cultural Politics of Development -- Part III. Concrete -- Michael Jackson as Lhasa -- 6. "Build a Civilized City": Making Lhasa Urban -- The Aftermath of 2008 (II) -- 7. Engineering Indebtedness and Image: Comfortable Housingand the New Socialist Countryside -- Conclusion -- Afterword: Fire -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Yeh examines how Chinese development projects in Tibet served to consolidate state space and power.
9780801469787
Economic development - China - Tibet Autonomous Region.
Electronic books.
DS786
951.505
Taming Tibet : Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (343 pages)
Taming Tibet -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Note on Transliterations and Place Names -- Abbreviations and Terms -- Introduction -- A Celebration -- 1. State Space: Power, Fear, and the State of Exception -- Hearing and Forgetting -- Part I. Soil -- The Aftermath of 2008 (I) -- 2. Cultivating Control: Nature, Gender, and Memories of Labor in State Incorporation -- Part II. Plastic -- Lhasa Humor -- 3. Vectors of Development: Migrants and the Making of "Little Sichuan" -- Signs of Lhasa -- 4. The Micropolitics of Marginalization -- Science and Technology Transfer Day -- 5. Indolence and the Cultural Politics of Development -- Part III. Concrete -- Michael Jackson as Lhasa -- 6. "Build a Civilized City": Making Lhasa Urban -- The Aftermath of 2008 (II) -- 7. Engineering Indebtedness and Image: Comfortable Housingand the New Socialist Countryside -- Conclusion -- Afterword: Fire -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Yeh examines how Chinese development projects in Tibet served to consolidate state space and power.
9780801469787
Economic development - China - Tibet Autonomous Region.
Electronic books.
DS786
951.505