Mapping Shangrila
Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila�a place that previously had existed only in fiction�had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been the sites of numerous state projects of tourism development and nature conservation, which have in turn attracted throngs of backpackers, environmentalists, and entrepreneurs who seek to experience, protect, and profit from the region�s landscapes.Mapping Shangrila advances a view of landscapes as media of governance, representation, and resistance, ex…
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Weitere Autoren: Coggins, Christopher R. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-295-80502-3
- EAN: 9780295805023
- Produktnummer: 20514021
- Verlag: University of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 348 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 3'032 KB
- Abbildungen: 15 illus.
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Edited by Emily T. Yeh and Christopher R. Coggins. Foreword by Stevan Harrell. Afterword by Ralph A. Litzinger
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