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Taming Tibet : Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (343 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780801469787
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Taming TibetDDC classification:
  • 951.505
LOC classification:
  • DS786
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: Yeh examines how Chinese development projects in Tibet served to consolidate state space and power.
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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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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