Taming Tibet : landscape transformation and the gift of Chinese development / Emily T. Yeh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Yeh, Emily T.

Series:

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.

Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Economic development--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.

Economic assistance, Chinese.

Tibetans--Ethnic identity.

Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Ethnic relations.

China--Ethnic relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, New York ; New York : Cornell University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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 projects in Tibet served to consolidate state space and power. The master narrative of the PRC stresses generosity: the state and Han migrants selflessly provide development to the supposedly backward Tibetans, raising the living standards of the Han's "little brothers." Arguing that development is in this context a form of "indebtedness engineering," Yeh depicts development as a hegemonic project that simultaneously recruits Tibetans to participate in their own marginalization while entrapping them in gratitude to the Chinese state. The resulting transformations of the material landscape advance the project of state territorialization. Exploring the complexity of the Tibetan response to--and negotiations with--development, Taming Tibet focuses on three key aspects of China's modernization: agrarian change, Chinese migration, and urbanization"-- Publisher's Web site.

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

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780801469770

0801469775

9781322523576

1322523576

9780801469787

0801469783

OCLC:

862207102