Exile from the grasslands : Tibetan herders and Chinese development projects

Exile from the grasslands : Tibetan herders and Chinese development projects / Jarmila Ptáčková.

"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...

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Main Author: Ptáčková, Jarmila (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020]
Series:Studies on ethnic groups in China.
Subjects:
2000-2099
Tibetans > Cultural assimilation > China > Zêkog Xian.
Nomads > Sedentarization > China > Qinghai Sheng.
Herders > China > Qinghai Sheng.
Tibetans > China > Zêkog Xian > Economic conditions.
Grasslands > China > Qinghai Sheng > Management.
Range policy > China > Qinghai Sheng.
Forced migration > China > Qinghai Sheng.
Pastoral systems > China > Qinghai Sheng.
Economic development projects > China > Zêkog Xian.
HISTORY / Asia / China
Economic development projects
Economic history
Forced migration
Grasslands > Management
Herders
Nomads > Sedentarization
Pastoral systems
Range policy
Tibetans > Cultural assimilation
Tibetans > Economic conditions
Zêkog Xian (China) > Economic conditions > 21st century.
China > Qinghai Sheng
China > Zêkog Xian
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Table of 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.

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