Continent in dust : experiments in a Chinese weather system / Jerry C. Zee.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zee, Jerry C., 1985- author.

Contributor:

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

Critical environments (Oakland, Calif.) ; 10.

Critical environments: nature, science, and politics ; 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dust storms.

China.

Dust storms--Political aspects--China--21st century.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xviii, 311 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]

Summary:

Continent in Dust explores material permutations of sand and wind--the life and course of a Chinese dust storm, though successive phases of matter--as sites of political, anthropological, and scientific experiment. It moves from science stations, forestry and social management schemes, and sand-threatened cities in China's desertified interior, to the particulate politics of air-spacing in a dust-shocked Beijing, to the technical and political challenges of international meteorological exposures in Korea and the US, China's downwind. The manuscript offers an intervention into the political anthropology of Reform China and a new approach to studying environmental crisis as a site of social, economic, and geophysical conflict"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Apparatus A : nightwind

Introduction : earthly interphases

Apparatus B : the wind tunnel

Machine sky

Apparatus C : a sheet of loose sand

Groundwork

Apparatus D : five thousand years

Holding patterns

Particulate exposures

Apparatus E : wildfires

City of chambers

Apparatus F : a sinocene

Downwinds

Apparatus G : monsters.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: Zee, Jerry C., 1985- Continent in dust

ISBN:

9780520384088

0520384083

9780520384095

0520384091

OCLC:

1273916009