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Exile from the grasslands : Tibetan herders and Chinese development projects /

"At the start of the new millennium, the Chinese government launched an ambitious new development program with far-reaching economic, environmental, and cultural effects in remote areas inhabited mainly by Indigenous ethnic groups. The Great Opening of the West program diverts pastoral Tibetans...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Ptáčková, Jarmila (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]
Series:Studies on ethnic groups in China.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cvilizing China's western Peripheries
  • The gift of development in pastoral areas
  • Sedentarization in Qinghai
  • Development in Zeku County
  • Sedentarization of pastoralists in Zeku County
  • Ambivalent outcomes and adaptation strategies
  • Glossary of Chinese and Tibetan terms.