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, examining how they are
reshaping cultural economies, political ecologies of resource use,
subjectivities, and interethnic relations. Chapters illuminate
topics such as the role of Han and Tibetan literary representations
of border landscapes in the formation of ethnic identities; the
remaking of Chinese national geographic imaginaries through tourism
in the Yading Nature Reserve; the role of The Nature Conservancy
and other transnational environmental organizations in struggles
over culture and environmental governance; the way in which
matsutake mushroom and caterpillar fungus commodity chains are
reshaping montane landscapes; and contestations over the changing
roles of mountain deities and their mediums as both interact with
increasingly intensive nature conservation and state-sponsored
capitalism.
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 U 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, RenI(c)e Mullen, Michelle Olsgard Stewart, Chris
Vasantkumar, Li-hua Ying, John Aloysius Zinda, and Gesang
Zeren."
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