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The concrete plateau : urban Tibetans and the Chinese civilizing machine / Andrew Grant.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grant, Andrew, 1984- author.
- Series:
- Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tibetans--Cultural assimilation--China--Xining (Qinghai Sheng).
- Tibetans.
- Tibetans--China--Xining (Qinghai Sheng)--Ethnic identity.
- Urbanization--Social aspects--China--Xining (Qinghai Sheng).
- Urbanization.
- Xining (Qinghai Sheng, China)--History--21st century.
- Xining (Qinghai Sheng, China).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2022]
- Summary:
- "The Concrete Plateau discusses Tibetans' migration to Xining, a large city on the eastern Tibetan Plateau. Although twenty-first-century urban planning in Xining has made the city more similar to other cities across China, Tibetans nevertheless use urban resources and networks to create a subaltern Tibetan city that sustains their identity"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Building the concrete plateau
- Circulations and dreams on the urbanizing plateau
- Remembering Xining
- Civilized city
- Uncivilized city
- Building Tibetan places
- Conclusion: Urbanization as civilizing machine.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781501764110
- 150176411X
- 9781501764103
- 1501764101
- OCLC:
- 1290244091
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