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Exile from the grasslands. Tibetan herders and Chinese development projects
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SYSNO ASEP 0537661 Document Type B - Monograph R&D Document Type Monograph Title Exile from the grasslands. Tibetan herders and Chinese development projects Author(s) Ptáčková, Jarmila (OU-W) SAI, ORCID Issue data Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2020 ISBN 978029574818497802957481919780295748207 Series Studies on ethnic groups in China Number of pages 188 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country US - United States Keywords Tibet ; pastoralists ; development policy ; sedentarization ; resettlement ; China ; Qinghai Subject RIV AO - Sociology, Demography OECD category Social sciences, interdisciplinary Institutional support OU-W - RVO:68378009 Annotation At the beginning of the new millennium, the Chinese government launched the Great Opening of the West, a development strategy targeted at remote areas inhabited mainly by indigenous ethnic groups. Intended to modernize infrastructure and halt environmental degradation, its tactics in western China have resulted in the displacement of pastoral Tibetans to urban residence and sedentary livelihoods, causing massive social and economic shifts and uncertainty and eventually leading to signs of discontent in ethnically Tibetan regions. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork, Exile from the Grasslands documents the viewpoints of both the people affected—Tibetan pastoralists in Qinghai Province—and the Chinese officials charged with relocating and settling them in newly constructed housing projects. As China’s international influence expands, the welfare of its ethnic minorities and its handling of environmental issues are receiving close media scrutiny. Jarmila Ptáčkova’s study documents a politically and ecologically significant process that is happening—unlike events in Lhasa or Xinjiang—largely outside the view of the wider world. Workplace Oriental Institute Contact Zuzana Kvapilová, kvapilova@orient.cas.cz, Tel.: 266 053 950 Year of Publishing 2022 Electronic address http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0316549
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