Yeh, Emily. <br/><br/>
Taming Tibet :  Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development. 

 - 1st ed. 
 - 1 online resource (343 pages) 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> Yeh examines how Chinese development projects in Tibet served to consolidate state space and power. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780801469787 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Economic development - China - Tibet Autonomous Region.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DS786 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>951.505