{"product_id":"taming-tibet-landscape-transformation-and-the-gift-of-chinese-development-9780801478321","title":"Taming Tibet  Landscape Transformation and the","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eYeh examines how Chinese development projects in Tibet served to consolidate state space and power.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eTaming Tibet\u003c\/i\u003e, Emily Yeh offers a new twist to current paradigms of Chinese development, presenting a trove of new evidence from China's politically unstable western periphery. Drawing on 16 months of intensive fieldwork undertaken between 2000 and 2009, Yeh traces the devastating effects of China's recent state-subsidized and state-led land development campaign in Lhasa and its peri-urban regions.... Yeh's fieldwork, coming during a period of rapid transformation in China's land regime, provides a valuable counterpoint to a development literature that has focused for decades on China's coastal regions to the neglect of its hinterland.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Julia Chuang * The Journal of Peasant Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her masterful new book, \u003ci\u003eTaming Tibet\u003c\/i\u003e, Emily Yeh discusses the gift of development in modern Lhasa in a critical fashion, providing an excellent and informative examination of Chinese development projects over the last sixty plus years.... It will be of use to scholars from a variety of fields including ethnicity in China, development studies, and geography, and is also a welcome addition to the Tibetological field.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Timothy Thurston * Asian Ethnology *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is an important and authoritative analysis of contemporary socio-economics and politics in Tibet and does require some understanding of the academic discipline involved. However, the technical jargon is offset to a great extent by the numerous first-hand accounts of the author's time in and around Lhasa, which are invariably insightful, often entertaining, and help to bring a touch of light relief to what is essentially a dark and sombre subject.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Wendy Palace * Asian Affairs *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003e Note on Transliterations and Place Names\u003cbr\u003e Abbreviations and Terms\u003cbr\u003e Introduction\u003cbr\u003e A Celebration\u003cbr\u003e 1. State Space: Power, Fear, and the State of Exception\u003cbr\u003e Hearing and Forgetting\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Soil\u003cbr\u003e The Aftermath of 2008 (I)\u003cbr\u003e 2. Cultivating Control: Nature, Gender, and Memories of Labor in State Incorporation\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Plastic\u003cbr\u003e Lhasa Humor\u003cbr\u003e 3. Vectors of Development: Migrants and the Making of \"Little Sichuan\"\u003cbr\u003e Signs of Lhasa\u003cbr\u003e 4. The Micropolitics of Marginalization\u003cbr\u003e Science and Technology Transfer Day\u003cbr\u003e 5. Indolence and the Cultural Politics of Development\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Concrete\u003cbr\u003e Michael Jackson as Lhasa\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"Build a Civilized City\": Making Lhasa Urban\u003cbr\u003e The Aftermath of 2008 (II)\u003cbr\u003e 7. Engineering Indebtedness and Image: Comfortable Housing and the New Socialist Countryside\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Afterword: Fire\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MB - Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49944464884055,"sku":"9780801478321","price":26.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780801478321.jpg?v=1738809842","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/taming-tibet-landscape-transformation-and-the-gift-of-chinese-development-9780801478321","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}