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Record Nr.

UNINA9910669820803321

Autore

Ptáčková Jarmila

Titolo

Exile from the Grasslands : Tibetan herders and Chinese development projects

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle : , : University of Washington Press, , 2020

ISBN

0-295-74818-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Studies on ethnic groups in China

Disciplina

ELECTRONIC BOOK

Soggetti

Tibetans - Migrations

Nomads - Sedentarization

Herders - China

Tibetans - Foreign countries

Grasslands - China

Forced migration - China

Pastoral systems - China

Economic development projects - China

Zêkog Xian (China) Economic conditions 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"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 to urban residence and urban livelihoods, resulting in a massive shift in social and economic patterns. Based on fieldwork that has been ongoing since 2007, this ethnography documents the transformation of Tibetan pastoral society in Qinghai Province under Chinese development efforts. It describes sedentarization and relocation policy agendas, viewpoints of both the



affected pastoral population and officials charged with implementing policy, and case studies of pastoralists' response to sedentarization and other grassland management policies"--