Exile from the Grasslands : Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects / Jarmila Ptackova.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ptáčková, Jarmila, author.

Contributor:

Harrell, Stevan, editor.

University of Washington. Libraries, Funder.

Series:

Studies on ethnic groups in China

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Herders--China--Qinghai Sheng.

Herders.

Tibetans--Cultural assimilation--China--Zekog Xian.

Tibetans.

Nomads--Sedentarization--China--Qinghai Sheng.

Nomads.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Seattle, Washington State : University of Washington Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Biography/History:

Ptáčková Jarmila : Jarmila Ptáčková is a researcher at the Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences. She received her PhD in Tibetan studies from Humboldt University, Berlin, in 2013. This is her first book.Harrell Stevan : Stevan Harrell is professor emeritus of anthropology and environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington. He is the author of Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China (University of Washington Press, 2001) and An Ecological History of Modern China (University of Washington Press, 2023); and editor of the University of Washington Press book series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China.Jarmila Ptáčková is a researcher at the Oriental Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9780295748184

0295748184