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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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Auteur principal: Grant, Andrew, 1984- (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2022.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
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Résumé:"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 subaltern Tibetan city that sustains their identity"--
Description matérielle:1 online resource (222 pages).
ISBN:9781501764103