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Author Makley, Charlene, 1964- author.

Title The battle for fortune : state-led development, personhood, and power among Tibetans in China / Charlene Makley.

Publication Info. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, 2018.

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Description 1 online resource (345 pages).
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Series Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : Olympic time and dilemmas of development in China's Tibet -- The dangers of the gift master -- The mountain deity and the state : voice, deity mediumship and land expropriation in Jima village -- Othering spaces, cementing treasure : concrete, money, and the politics of value in Kharnak village school -- The melodious sound of the right-turning conch : historiography and Buddhist counter-development in Langmo village -- Spectacular compassion : "natural" disasters, national mourning, and the unquiet dead -- Epilogue : the kindly solemn face of the female Buddha.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Tibetans -- China -- Reb-gong Gser-mo-ljongs -- Social conditions -- 21st century.
Tibetans -- China -- Reb-gong Gser-mo-ljongs -- Economic conditions -- 21st century.
Reb-gong Gser-mo-ljongs (China) -- Ethnic relations.
Reb-gong Gser-mo-ljongs (China) -- Politics and government -- 21st century.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Makley, Charlene E., 1964- Battle for fortune : state-led development, personhood, and power among Tibetans in China. Ithaca ; London : Cornell University Press, c2018 345 pages Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. 9781501719660 (DLC) 2017039231
ISBN 9781501719660
9781501719653 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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