Taming Tibet : : Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development / / Emily Yeh.
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 development...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013] ©2013 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (344 p.) :; 19 halftones, 2 tables, 3 maps |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Note on Transliterations and Place Names
- Abbreviations and Terms
- Introduction
- 1. State Space: Power, Fear, and the State of Exception
- 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 Sichuan"
- 4. The Micropolitics of Marginalization
- 5. Indolence and the Cultural Politics of Development
- Part III. Concrete
- Michael Jackson as Lhasa
- 6. "Build a Civilized City": Making Lhasa Urban
- 7. Engineering Indebtedness and Image: Comfortable Housing and the New Socialist Countryside
- Conclusion
- Afterword: Fire
- Notes
- References
- Index