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Taming Tibet : landscape transformation and the gift of Chinese development
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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 th...
"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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- Creator
- Emily T. Yeh
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Ithaca, New York ; New York : Cornell University Press, 2013
- ©2013
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (343 p.)
- ISBNs
- 0801451558, 9780801469770, 9780801478321, 9780801469787, 9780801451553, 0801469775, 0801469783, 9781322523576, 1322523576, 0801478324
- OCLC
- ocn862207102, ocn922998460
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Issued also in print.
- English
- Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Preface -- Note on Transliterations and Place Names -- Abbreviations and Terms -- Introduction -- 1. State Space: Power, Fear, and the State of Exception -- 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" -- 4. The Micropolitics of Marginalization -- 5. Indolence and the Cultural Politics of Development -- Part III. Concrete -- Michael Jackson as Lhasa -- 6. "Build a Civilized City": Making Lhasa Urban -- 7. Engineering Indebtedness and Image: Comfortable Housing and the New Socialist Countryside -- Conclusion -- Afterword: Fire -- Notes -- References -- Index