Mapping Shangrila
Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805023In 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…
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Weitere Autoren: Yeh, Emily T. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-295-99358-4
- EAN: 9780295993584
- Produktnummer: 15634596
- Verlag: University Of Washington Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
- Seitenangabe: 350 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.0 cm 538 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 538
Über den Autor
Emily T. Yeh is associate professor of geography at the University of Colorado Boulder and the author of Taming Tibet. Chris Coggins is professor of geography and Asian studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock and the author of The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China. Contributors include Michael Hathaway, Travis Klingberg, Charlene E. Makley, Bob Moseley, Renie Mullen, Michelle Olsgard Stewart, Chris Vasantkumar, Li-hua Ying, John Aloysius Zinda, and Gesang Zeren.
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