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Taming Tibet : landscape transformation and the gift of Chinese development /

"The violent protests in Lhasa in 2008 against Chinese rule were met by disbelief and anger on the part of Chinese citizens and state authorities, perplexed by Tibetans' apparent ingratitude for the generous provision of development. In Taming Tibet, Emily T. Yeh examines how Chinese devel...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Yeh, Emily T. (Emily Ting) (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca, New York : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Colección:Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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 Sichuanâ€?; Signs of Lhasa; 2. 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 Cityâ€?: 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.