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Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development
By Emily T. Yeh
"Taming Tibet" was published by Cornell University Press in 2013, it has 344 pages and the language of the book is English.
“Taming Tibet” Metadata:
- Title: Taming Tibet
- Author: Emily T. Yeh
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 344
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Publish Date: 2013
“Taming Tibet” Subjects and Themes:
- Subjects: ➤ Economic development - Tibetans - China, ethnic relations - Economic assistance - Tibet autonomous region (china) - Ethnic relations - Chinese Economic assistance - Ethnic identity
Edition Identifiers:
- The Open Library ID: OL28512595M - OL21062334W
- Online Computer Library Center (OCLC) ID: 845085808
- Library of Congress Control Number (LCCN): 2013021195
- ISBN-13: 9780801478321
- All ISBNs: 9780801478321
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"Taming Tibet" Description:
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"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"--
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