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A Change in Worlds on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands - Politics, Economies, and Environments in Northern Sichuan (Hardcover, New)
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A Change in Worlds on the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands - Politics, Economies, and Environments in Northern Sichuan (Hardcover, New)
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A Change in Worlds explores the environmental, economic, and
political history of the Sino-Tibetan Songpan region of northern
Sichuan from the late imperial Qing Dynasty to the early 21st
century. A historically Tibetan region on the eastern edge of the
Tibetan Plateau, with significant Han and Muslim Chinese
populations, Songpan played important roles in the development of
western and modern China s ethnic relations policies, forestry
sector, grasslands and environmental conservation, and recent
developments in eco- and ethnic tourism as part of various Chinese
states. However, in spite of close associations with various
Tibetan and Chinese regimes, the region also has a rich history of
local independence and resilient nomadic, semi-nomadic and
agricultural populations and identities. The Sino-Tibetan diversity
in Songpan, partly formed by unique ecological conditions,
conditioned all attempts to incorporate the region into larger and
more centralized state homogenizing structures. This historical
study analyzes the social force of markets and nature in the
Songpan region in concert with the political and social conflicts
and compromise at the heart of changing political regimes and the
area s ethnic groups. It presents new perspectives on the social
transformation and economies of Tibetans and Han Chinese from the
late Qing Dynasty to Mao era and contemporary western China. It not
only allows for a new understanding of how the natural environment
and landscapes fit into the imagination of the Sino-Tibetan
borderlands, it also figures in the challenges of negotiating
ethnic and market relations among societies. The mix of complicated
relations over natural environment, resources, politics and markets
was at the heart of the region s social and political
infrastructures, with far-reaching implications for both historical
and contemporary China."
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