02862cam a2200421 4500 2798635022 TxAuBib 20260625120000.0 ||||||s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780295748207 0295748206 B08NLB6N35 Amazon 4d888704-5c5e-4dc7-af4e-7a7f1031a17b OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9063824 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Ptáčková, Jarmila. Exile from the Grasslands [Bridges eBook] : Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects. University of Washington Press, 2020. Great Opening of the West development strategy. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Environmental migration. ecological resettlement. Tibetan pastoralists. poverty alleviation. sedentarization. Chinese policy. Development. HTML:<p><b>Reconstructing lifeways on the Tibetan Plateau<br /></b>Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748207<br /> At the beginning of the new millennium, the Chinese government launched the Great Opening of the West, a development strategy targeted at remote areas inhabited mainly by indigenous ethnic groups. Intended to modernize infrastructure and halt environmental degradation, its tactics in western China have resulted in the displacement of pastoral Tibetans to urban residence and sedentary livelihoods, causing massive social and economic shifts and uncertainty and eventually leading to signs of discontent in ethnically Tibetan regions.<br /> Based on more than a decade of fieldwork, <i>Exile from the Grasslands</i> documents the viewpoints of both the people affected—Tibetan pastoralists in Qinghai Province—and the Chinese officials charged with relocating and settling them in newly constructed housing projects. As China's international influence expands, the welfare of its ethnic minorities and its handling of environmental issues are receiving close media scrutiny. Jarmila Ptáčkova's study documents a politically and ecologically significant process that is happening—unlike events in Lhasa or Xinjiang—largely outside the view of the wider world.</p>. Technology. Nonfiction. Sociology. History. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2026-06-23 20:00:02. Harrell, Stevan. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4d888704-5c5e-4dc7-af4e-7a7f1031a17b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=4d888704-5c5e-4dc7-af4e-7a7f1031a17b&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)