Conserving China's Northwest Frontier

Nature, Culture, and Future

You-tien Hsing (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

608 Seiten

2025
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-886717-3 (ISBN)

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China's immense northwest holds the key to the country's internal geopolitical and socioeconomic restructuring and global soft power today. In addition to hosting mega investments in energy, mining, infrastructure, and urban development, this resource-rich and ethnically diverse, yet under-studied, territory of 3.7 million square kilometres is leading China's rising developmental ethos of conserving nature and culture.

Conserving China's Northwest Frontier offers nuanced accounts of the under-studied and often misunderstood region with fresh perspectives from the ground up. Derived from decade-long ethnography in three sites in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Gansu province of the northwest from 2011 to 2022, this book also offers an unusually expansive coverage on three counts. Topically, it integrates both environmental and heritage conservation. Temporally, it situates the contemporary conservation politics within geopolitical, ethnoterritorial, and environmental histories of the frontier region. Spatially, it connects multiple territorial scales from the global, national, regional, to the grassroots.

You-tien Hsing is Professor of Geography at University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Making Capitalism in China: The Taiwan Connection (Oxford University Press,1998).

I: Introduction: A Productive Crisis: Desertification in China's Northwest
Introduction to Part I: Pastoral Possibilities In Inner Mongolia's Gobi Desert
1: A Miracle Shrub: Suosuo for Combatting Desertification
2: Mobility Under Restrictions: Ejina Herders Surviving Rangeland Conservation
Introduction to Part II: Agricultural Futures of Gansu's Salty Soil
3: Hope of the Hopeless: Recharging the Dried-up Qingtu Lake in Minqin
4: Opportunity in Scarcity: Building a National Model of Water Conservancy
Introduction to Part III: Agropastoral Entanglements of Inner Mongolia's Turbulent Steppes
5: Mongols as China's Triple Minority: A Comparison with Tibetans and Uyghurs
6: Land Commodification: Emperors and Princes in Central IM in the 18th-19th Centuries
7: Hydro Turfdoms: Barons, Priests and Bandits in West IM in the 19th-20th Centuries
8: Mongol Farmers: Massacre Refugees in East IM in the 20th-21st Centuries
Introduction to Part IV: Sociocultural Aspirations across the Great Wall
9: Moving Up and Out: Mongol Students in China's College and Job Races
10: Popularizing the Monument: The Wild Great Walls
I: Conclusion: Telling Place-Driven Stories: Methods, Analyses, and Theorization

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.12.2025
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-19-886717-4 / 0198867174
ISBN-13	978-0-19-886717-3 / 9780198867173
Zustand	Neuware