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Continent in Dust : Experiments in a Chinese Weather System /
In China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and political relations between land and air in China and downwind. Continent in Dust offers an anthropol...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Berkeley, CA :
University of California Press,
[2022]
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| Colección: | Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics ;
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and political relations between land and air in China and downwind. Continent in Dust offers an anthropology of strange weather, focusing on intersections among statecraft, landscape, atmosphere, and society. Traveling from state engineering programs that attempt to choreograph the movement of mobile dunes in the interior, to newly reconfigured bodies and airspaces in Beijing, and beyond, this book explores contemporary China as a weather system in the making: what would it mean to understand "the rise of China" literally, as the country itself rises into the air? |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (332 p.) |
| ISBN: | 9780520384101 9783110993899 9783110994810 9783110994551 9783110994520 9783110766493 |
| Acceso: | restricted access |