TY  - BOOK
AU  - Yeh,Emily
TI  - Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development
SN  - 9780801469787
AV  - DS786 
U1  - 951.505 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Ithaca
PB  - Cornell University Press
KW  - Economic development - China - Tibet Autonomous Region
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - Yeh examines how Chinese development projects in Tibet served to consolidate state space and power
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ER  -