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The Battle for Fortune : State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University SeriesPublisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 2nd edDescription: 1 online resource (345 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781501719653
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Battle for FortuneDDC classification:
  • 951/.5
LOC classification:
  • DS797.82.R43
Online resources:
Contents:
THE BATTLE FOR FORTUNE -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Language -- Introduction: Olympic Time and Dilemmas of Development in China's Tibet -- 1. The Dangers of the Gift Master -- 2. The Mountain Deity and the State: Voice, Deity Mediumship, and LandExpropriation in Jima Village -- 3. Othering Spaces, Cementing Treasure: Concrete, Money, and the Politics of Value in Kharnak Village School -- 4. The Melodious Sound of the Right-Turning Conch: Historiography and Buddhist Counterdevelopment in Langmo Village -- 5. Spectacular Compassion: "Natural" Disasters, National Mourning, and the Unquiet Dead -- Epilogue: The Kindly Solemn Face of the Female Buddha -- Notes -- References -- Index.
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THE BATTLE FOR FORTUNE -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Note on Language -- Introduction: Olympic Time and Dilemmas of Development in China's Tibet -- 1. The Dangers of the Gift Master -- 2. The Mountain Deity and the State: Voice, Deity Mediumship, and LandExpropriation in Jima Village -- 3. Othering Spaces, Cementing Treasure: Concrete, Money, and the Politics of Value in Kharnak Village School -- 4. The Melodious Sound of the Right-Turning Conch: Historiography and Buddhist Counterdevelopment in Langmo Village -- 5. Spectacular Compassion: "Natural" Disasters, National Mourning, and the Unquiet Dead -- Epilogue: The Kindly Solemn Face of the Female Buddha -- Notes -- References -- Index.

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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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