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The Concrete Plateau : Urban Tibetans and the Chinese Civilizing Machine /

"The Concrete Plateau discusses Tibetans' migration to Xining, a large city on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Although twenty-first-century urban planning in Xining has made the city more similar to other cities across China, Tibetans nevertheless use urban resources and networks to create a...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Grant, Andrew, 1984- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Building the concrete plateau
  • Circulations and dreams on the urbanizing plateau
  • Remembering Xining
  • Civilized city
  • Uncivilized city
  • Building Tibetan places
  • Conclusion: Urbanization as civilizing machine.