TY - BOOK AU - Pt�čkov�,Jarmila TI - Exile from the Grasslands: Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects T2 - Studies on Ethnic Groups in China SN - 9780295748184 PY - 2020/// CY - Seattle PB - University of Washington Press KW - Asian history KW - bicssc KW - Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography KW - Sustainable agriculture KW - Chinese policy KW - Development KW - ecological resettlement KW - environmental migration KW - Great Opening of the West development strategy KW - poverty alleviation KW - sedentarization KW - Tibetan pastoralists N1 - Open Access N2 - Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748207 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 Pt�čkova'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 UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/79dfd01f-649e-475d-af52-1c6ffd294ddc/9780295748207.pdf UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/c51b85bf-ac92-40b8-929c-4057c1c03c45/9780295748207.epub UR - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75821 ER -