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Title Mapping Shangrila : contested landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands / edited by Emily T. Yeh and Chris Coggins.

Publication Info. Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, 2014.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 332 pages)
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Series Studies on ethnic groups in China
Studies on ethnic groups in China.
Summary "In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila--a place that previously had existed only in fiction--had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been the sites of numerous state projects of tourism development and nature conservation, which have in turn attracted throngs of backpackers, environmentalists, and entrepreneurs who seek to experience, protect, and profit from the region's landscapes. Mapping Shangrila advances a view of landscapes as media of governance, representation, and resistance, examining how they are reshaping cultural economies, political ecologies of resource use, subjectivities, and interethnic relations. Chapters illuminate topics such as the role of Han and Tibetan literary representations of border landscapes in the formation of ethnic identities; the remaking of Chinese national geographic imaginaries through tourism in the Yading Nature Reserve; the role of The Nature Conservancy and other transnational environmental organizations in struggles over culture and environmental governance; the way in which matsutake mushroom and caterpillar fungus commodity chains are reshaping montane landscapes; and contestations over the changing roles of mountain deities and their mediums as both interact with increasingly intensive nature conservation and state-sponsored capitalism. Emily T. Yeh is associate professor of geography at the University of Colorado Boulder and the author of Taming Tibet; Chris Coggins is professor of geography and Asian studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock and the author of The Tiger and the Pangolin : Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China; contributors include Michael Hathaway, Travis Klingberg, Charlene E. Makley, Bob Moseley, Rene Mullen, Michelle Olsgard Stewart, Chris Vasantkumar, Li-hua Ying, John Aloysius Zinda, and Gesang Zeren"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-317) and index.
Contents Foreword / by Stevan Harrell -- Note on Transliterations and Place-Names -- Abbreviations and Foreign-Language Terms -- Introduction: Producing Shangrilas / Chris Coggins and Emily T. Yeh -- Part I. Shangrilazation : Tourism, Landscape, Identity -- Vital Margins : Frontier Poetics and Landscapes of Ethnic Identity / Li-hua Ying -- Dreamworld, Shambala, Gannan : The Shangrilazation of China's "Little Tibet" / Chris Vasantkumar -- A Routine Discovery : The Practice of Place and the Opening of the Yading Nature Reserve / Travis Klingberg -- Part II. Constructing the Ecological State : Conservation, Commodification, and Resource Governance -- Making National Parks in Yunnan : Shifts and Struggles within the Ecological State / John Aloysius Zinda -- The Nature Conservancy in Shangrila : Transnational Conservation and Its Critiques / Robert K. Moseley and Renée B. Mullen -- Transnational Matsutake Governance : Endangered Species, Contamination, and the Reemergence of Global Commodity Chains / Michael J. Hathaway -- Constructing and Deconstructing the Commons : Caterpillar Fungus Governance in Developing Yunnan / Michelle Olsgard Stewart -- Part III. Contested Landscapes : Harmonious Society and Sovereign Territories -- Animate Landscapes : Nature Conservation and the Production of Agropastoral Sacred Space in Shangrila / Chris Coggins with Gesang Zeren -- The Amoral Other : State-Led Development and Mountain Deity Cults among Tibetans in Amdo Rebgong / Charlene E. Makley -- The Rise and Fall of the Green Tibetan : Contingent Collaborations and the Vicissitudes of Harmony / Emily T. Yeh -- Afterword / by Ralph Litzinger.
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Subject China -- Relations -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Relations -- China.
Landscapes -- Political aspects -- China.
Landscapes -- Political aspects -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Shangri-La (Imaginary place)
Borderlands -- China.
Borderlands -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Geography -- Political aspects -- China.
China -- Environmental conditions.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Environmental conditions.
Région autonome du Tibet (Chine) -- Relations -- Chine.
Paysages -- Aspect politique -- Chine.
Paysages -- Aspect politique -- Chine -- Région autonome du Tibet.
Shangri-La (Lieu imaginaire)
Régions frontalières -- Chine.
Régions frontalières -- Chine -- Région autonome du Tibet.
Géographie -- Aspect politique -- Chine.
Région autonome du Tibet (Chine) -- Conditions environnementales.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
HISTORY -- Asia -- China.
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
Borderlands
Ecology
International relations
Landscapes -- Political aspects
Shangri-La (Imaginary place)
China
China -- Tibet Autonomous Region
Grenzgebiet
Grenzgebiet Motiv
Landschaft
Landschaft Motiv
Literatur
Tourismus
Umweltschutz
China
Shambhala
Tibet
China -- Relations -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Relations -- China.
Landscape -- Political aspects -- China.
Landscape -- Political aspects -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Shangri-La (Imaginary place)
Borderlands -- China.
Borderlands -- China -- Tibet Autonomous Region.
Geography -- Political aspects -- China.
China -- Environmental conditions.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China) -- Environmental conditions.
China.
Tibet.
Environmental protection.
Geopolitics.
Indexed Term Social & cultural anthropology
Added Author Yeh, Emily T. (Emily Ting)
Coggins, Chris, 1963-
Other Form: Print version: Mapping Shangrila. Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, 2014 9780295993577 (DLC) 2014004037
ISBN 9780295805023 (ebook)
0295805021
0295993588
9780295993584
9780295993577 (hardback ; alkaline paper)
9780295993584 (paperback ; alkaline paper)
029599357X
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