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Mapping Shangrila

Mapping Shangrila contested landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan borderlands / [electronic resource] : edited by Emily T. Yeh and Chris Coggins. - Seattle, WA : University of Washington Press, 2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.) - Studies on ethnic groups in China . - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 Renee 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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SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography.
HISTORY / Asia / China.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
Geography--Political aspects--China.
Borderlands--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.
Borderlands--China.
Shangri-La (Imaginary place)
Landscapes--Political aspects--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.
Landscapes--Political aspects--China.


Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Environmental conditions.
China--Environmental conditions.
Tibet Autonomous Region (China)--Relations--China.
China--Relations--China--Tibet Autonomous Region.


Electronic books.

DS740.5.T5 / M+