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1 online resource |
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University |
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Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
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| Contents |
Taming Tibet ; Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Note on Transliterations and Place Names; Abbreviations and Terms; Introduction; A Celebration; 1. State Space: Power, Fear, and the State of Exception; Hearing and Forgetting; ""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�; Signs of Lhasa; 2. The Micropolitics of Marginalization |
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Science and Technology Transfer Day;5. Indolence and the Cultural Politics of Development -- Part III. Concrete -- Michael Jackson as Lhasa; 6. “Build a Civilized City�: Making Lhasa Urban; The Aftermath of 2008 (II); 7. Engineering Indebtedness and Image: Comfortable Housingand the New Socialist Countryside; Conclusion; Afterword: Fire; Notes; References; Index |
| 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 |
| Analysis |
protests in Lhasa, Tibetan livelihoods, territorialization, Chinese migration, and urbanization |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Economic development -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
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Economic assistance, Chinese.
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Tibetans -- Ethnic identity
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HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Economy.
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Economic assistance, Chinese
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Economic development
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Ethnic relations
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Tibetans -- Ethnic identity
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| SUBJECT |
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Ethnic relations
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China -- Ethnic relations
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China
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China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2013021195 |
| ISBN |
0801469783 |
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9780801469787 |
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