TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ptáčková,Jarmila
TI  - Exile from the grasslands: Tibetan herders and Chinese development projects 
T2  - Studies on ethnic groups in China
SN  - 0295748206
AV  - DS793.T7 P73 2020
U1  - 323.1195/4105147 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Seattle
PB  - University of Washington Press
KW  - Tibetans
KW  - Cultural assimilation
KW  - China
KW  - Zêkog Xian
KW  - Nomads
KW  - Sedentarization
KW  - Qinghai Sheng
KW  - Herders
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Grasslands
KW  - Management
KW  - Range policy
KW  - Forced migration
KW  - Pastoral systems
KW  - Economic development projects
KW  - Nomades
KW  - Sédentarisation
KW  - Chine
KW  - Qinghai (Sheng)
KW  - Prairies
KW  - Gestion
KW  - Pâturages
KW  - Politique gouvernementale
KW  - Pastoralisme
KW  - HISTORY / Asia / China
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Economic history
KW  - Zêkog Xian (China)
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cvilizing China's western Peripheries -- The gift of development in pastoral areas -- Sedentarization in Qinghai -- Development in Zeku County -- Sedentarization of pastoralists in Zeku County -- Ambivalent outcomes and adaptation strategies -- Glossary of Chinese and Tibetan terms
N2  - "At the start of the new millennium, the Chinese government launched an ambitious new development program with far-reaching economic, environmental, and cultural effects in remote areas inhabited mainly by indigenous ethnic groups. The Great Opening of the West program diverts pastoral Tibetans to urban residence and urban livelihoods, resulting in a massive shift in social and economic patterns. Based on fieldwork that has been ongoing since 2007, this ethnography documents the transformation of Tibetan pastoral society in Qinghai Province under Chinese development efforts. It describes sedentarization and relocation policy agendas, viewpoints of both the affected pastoral population and officials charged with implementing policy, and case studies of pastoralists' response to sedentarization and other grassland management policies"--
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ER  -