Exile from the Grasslands

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748207 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 environmen...

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मुख्य लेखक: Ptáčková, Jarmila
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description Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748207 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. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork, Exile from the Grasslands 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.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1213532025-03-20T10:39:04Z Exile from the Grasslands Ptáčková, Jarmila Development Tibetan pastoralists sedentarization poverty alleviation Chinese policy environmental migration ecological resettlement Great Opening of the West development strategy Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748207 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. Based on more than a decade of fieldwork, Exile from the Grasslands 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. 2023-11-16T10:18:41Z 2023-11-16T10:18:41Z 2023-08-28T08:11:17Z 2020 book ONIX_20230828_9780295748207_32 OCN: 1161996582 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/75821 9780295748207 9780295748184 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/121353 eng Studies on Ethnic Groups in China open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75821/1/9780295748207.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75821/1/9780295748207.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/75821/1/9780295748207.pdf University of Washington Press University of Washington Press 10.6069/9780295748207 10.6069/9780295748207 05b43d6c-b025-4c47-9778-32ac09131cc4 b19c1210-bdad-4399-98b9-916c85ca92f5 9780295748207 9780295748184 University of Washington Press 188 Seattle [...] open access
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Tibetan pastoralists
sedentarization
poverty alleviation
Chinese policy
environmental migration
ecological resettlement
Great Opening of the West development strategy
Ptáčková, Jarmila
Exile from the Grasslands
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Tibetan pastoralists
sedentarization
poverty alleviation
Chinese policy
environmental migration
ecological resettlement
Great Opening of the West development strategy
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Tibetan pastoralists
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poverty alleviation
Chinese policy
environmental migration
ecological resettlement
Great Opening of the West development strategy
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