"The Beijing Olympics ensured that the world would be watching China in 2008, and the year turned out to be the most tumultuous and traumatic for the Chinese since the massive Tiananmen uprising of 1989. Crippling winter storms, riots in Tibet, the devastating Sichuan earthquake, and many other dramatic events including the PRC edging out the United States to become the country with the most Internet users grabbed international headlines ..."
"The Beijing Olympics ensured that the world would be watching China in 2008, and the year turned out to be the most tumultuous and traumatic for the Chinese since the massive Tiananmen uprising of 1989. Crippling winter storms, riots in Tibet, the devastating Sichuan earthquake, and many other dramatic events including the PRC edging out the United States to become the country with the most Internet users grabbed international headlines ..."
"State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power Among Tibetans in China
Charlene Makley. Bloch, Maurice, and ... Meltdown in Tibet: China's Reckless
Destruction of Ecosystems from the Highlands of Tibet to the Deltas of Asia. New
York: ..."
"See Wong 2008, Yu 2008, Bin Xu 2012. 43. Just four days after the quake, the
Civil Affairs Ministry reported an estimated total of $192 million in relief donations
from all over the country (see Fan 2008). Observers noted the previous lack of an
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"(2010). Brian R. Dott is associate professor of history, Whitman College. He
received his Ph.D. in Chinese history from the University of Pittsburgh in 1998.
He is the author of Identity Reflections: Pilgrimages to Mount Tai in Late Imperial
China (2004). His current research examines the emergence of Mount Tai as a
national symbol for China, and the cultural impacts of the introduction of the chili
pepper into East Asia. Xiaofei K ..."
"By providing a unique perspective on China's changing relationship with religion, this groundbreaking book explores the role the Chinese state continues to play in religious revival today. Over the past several decades, China has experienced a rapid expansion of religious spaces and activities. More recently, a growing middle-class urban society has fueled an upsurge in Chinese domestic tourism. Faiths on Display challenges the common s ..."
The Battle for Fortune State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) by Charlene E. Makley Paperback, 348 Pages, Published 2018 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-1967-7, ISBN: 1-5017-1967-X
"In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans’ encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon anthropology’s qualitative approach to personhood, power and space to rethink the premises and consequences of economic development campaigns in China's multiethnic northwestern province of Qinghai.Charlene Ma ..."
The Battle for Fortune State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China (Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) by Charlene E. Makley Hardcover, 348 Pages, Published 2018 by Cornell University Press ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-1964-6, ISBN: 1-5017-1964-5
"In a deeply ethnographic appraisal, based on years of in situ research, The Battle for Fortune looks at the rising stakes of Tibetans’ encounters with Chinese state-led development projects in the early 2000s. The book builds upon anthropology’s qualitative approach to personhood, power and space to rethink the premises and consequences of economic development campaigns in China's multiethnic northwestern province of Qinghai.Charlene Ma ..."