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China in 2008
A Year of Great Significance
by Kenneth L. Pomeranz, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Kate Merkel-Hess, Miri Kim, Jonathan D. Spence, Pallavi Aiyar, David Bandurski, Nicole Barnes, Daniel Beekman, Susan Brownell, Geremie R. Barmé, Pär Cassel, Leslie T. Chang, Yong Chen, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, Xujun Eberlein, Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, Mary S. Erbaugh, James Farrer, Caroline Finlay, Howard W. French, Pierre Fuller, Anna Greenspan, Amy Hanser, Peter Hessler, Jeremiah Jenne, Paul R. Katz, Richard Kraus, Haiyan Lee, David Luesink, Liang Luo, Charlene E. Makley, Stephen Mihm, James Miles, Pankaj Mishra, Rana Mitter, Julia K. Murray, Timothy S. Oakes, Alex Pasternack, David Porter, Shakhar Rahav, Benjamin L. Read, Caroline Reeves, Eric Setzekorn, Angilee Shah, Xia Shi, Steve Smith, Donald S. Sutton, Paola Voci, Timothy B. Weston, Guobin Yang, Lijia Zhang, Pomeranz/Wasserstrom
Hardcover, 344 Pages, Published 2009 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-6659-0, ISBN: 0-7425-6659-5

"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 ..."






China in 2008(9th Edition)
A Year of Great Significance
by Kate Merkel-Hess, Kenneth L. Pomeranz, Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Jonathan D. Spence, Miri Kim, Susan Brownell, Pallavi Aiyar, David Bandurski, Geremie R. Barmé, Nicole Barnes, Daniel Beekman, Pär Cassel, Leslie T. Chang, Yong Chen, Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, Xujun Eberlein, Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley, Mary S. Erbaugh, James Farrer, Caroline Finlay, Howard W. French, Pierre Fuller, Anna Greenspan, Amy Hanser, Peter Hessler, Jeremiah Jenne, Paul R. Katz, Richard Kraus, Haiyan Lee, David Luesink, Liang Luo, Charlene E. Makley, Stephen Mihm, James Miles, Pankaj Mishra, Rana Mitter, Julia K. Murray, Timothy S. Oakes, Alex Pasternack, David Porter, Shakhar Rahav, Benjamin L. Read, Caroline Reeves, Eric Setzekorn, Angilee Shah, Xia Shi, Steve Smith, Donald S. Sutton, Paola Voci, Timothy B. Weston, Guobin Yang, Lijia Zhang, Pomeranz/Wasserstrom
Paperback, 328 Pages, Published 2009 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-0-7425-6660-6, ISBN: 0-7425-6660-9

"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 ..."






Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
The Battle for Fortune : State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China
by Charlene Makley
348 Pages, Published 2018 by Cornell University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-1965-3, ISBN: 1-5017-1965-3

"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: ..."






Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
The Battle for Fortune : State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China
by Charlene Makley
348 Pages, Published 2018 by Cornell University Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-5017-1966-0, ISBN: 1-5017-1966-1

"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  ..."






Faiths on Display
Religion, Tourism, and the Chinese State
by Tim Oakes, Donald S. Sutton, Kenneth Dean, Professor Xiaofei Kang, Charlene Makley, Susan K. Mccarthy, Charles F. Mckhann, Yu Luo Rioux, Marina Svensson
Digital, 292 Pages, Published 2010 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-0508-6, ISBN: 1-4422-0508-3

"(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 ..."






Faiths on Display
Religion, Tourism, and the Chinese State
by Tim Oakes, Donald S. Sutton, Oakes/Sutton, Kenneth Dean, Professor Xiaofei Kang, Charlene Makley, Susan K. Mccarthy, Yu Luo Rioux, Marina Svensson, Dr Rubie Watson
Hardcover, 292 Pages, Published 2010 by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN-13: 978-1-4422-0506-2, ISBN: 1-4422-0506-7

"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 ..."

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Charlene Makley

Donald Sutton

Rana Mitter

Pankaj Mishra

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Alex Pasternack

David Porter

Julia Murray

David Luesink

Haiyan Lee


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