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Mapping Shangrila : Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands.

Yeh, Emily T.

Mapping Shangrila : Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (349 pages) - Studies on Ethnic Groups in China Series . - Studies on Ethnic Groups in China Series .

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Stevan Harrell -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Transliterations and Place-Names -- Abbreviations and Foreign-Language Terms -- Introduction: Producing Shangrilas - Chris Coggins and Emily T. Yeh -- Part I. Shangrilazation: Tourism, Landscape, Identity -- Chapter 1. Vital Margins: Frontier Poetics and Landscapes of Ethnic Identity - Li-hua Ying -- Chapter 2. Dreamworld, Shambala, Gannan: The Shangrilazation of China's "Little Tibet" - Chris Vasantkumar -- Chapter 3. A Routine Discovery: The Practice of Place and the Opening of the Yading Nature Reserve - Travis Klingberg -- Part II. Constructing The Ecological State: Conservation, Commodification, and Resource Governance -- Chapter 4. Making National Parks in Yunnan: Shifts and Struggles within the Ecological State - John Aloysius Zinda -- Chapter 5. The Nature Conservancy in Shangrila: Transnational Conservation and Its Critiques - Robert K. Moseley and Renée B. Mullen -- Chapter 6. Transnational Matsutake Governance: Endangered Species, Contamination, and the Reemergence of Global Commodity Chains - Michael J. Hathaway -- Chapter 7. Constructing and Deconstructing the Commons: Caterpillar Fungus Governance in Developing Yunnan - Michelle Olsgard Stewart -- Part III. Contested Landscapes: Harmonious Society and Sovereign Territories -- Chapter 8. Animate Landscapes: Nature Conservation and the Production of Agropastoral Sacred Space in Shangrila - Chris Coggins with Gesang Zeren -- Chapter 9. The Amoral Other: State-Led Development and Mountain Deity Cults among Tibetans in Amdo Rebgong - Charlene E. Makley -- Chapter 10. The Rise and Fall of the Green Tibetan: Contingent Collaborations and the Vicissitudes of Harmony - Emily T. Yeh -- Afterword: The Afterlives of Shangrila - Ralph Litzinger -- References -- Contributors -- Index.

9780295805023


Landscapes -- Political aspects -- China.
Landscapes -- Political aspects -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
China -- Relations -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Relations -- China.


Electronic books.

DS740.5.T5 -- .M37 2014eb

327.510515

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