Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China)

ISBN 10: 0295993588 / ISBN 13: 9780295993584

Verlag: University of Washington Press, 2014

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• Titel: Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (Studies on Ethnic Groups in China)
• Verlag: University of Washington Press
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2014
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0295993588
• ISBN-13: 9780295993584
• Einband: Softcover
• Zustand: New

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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805023

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.

Über die Autorinnen und Autoren

Emily T. Yeh is professor of geography at the University of Colorado. She is the author of Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development (Cornell University Press, 2013); and coeditor of Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (University of Washington Press, 2014).

Christopher R. Coggins is professor of geography and Asian studies at Bard College at Simon's Rock. He is the author of The Tiger and the Pangolin: Nature, Culture, and Conservation in China (University of Hawai'i Press, 2003); and a coeditor of Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands (University of Washington Press, 2014).

Stevan Harrell is professor emeritus of anthropology and environmental and forest sciences at the University of Washington. He is the author of Ways of Being Ethnic in Southwest China (University of Washington Press, 2001) and An Ecological History of Modern China (University of Washington Press, 2023); and editor of the University of Washington Press book series Studies on Ethnic Groups in China.