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Exile from the Grasslands
Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects
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.
Based on more than a decade of fieldwork,
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"Promises to become a core text on the impacts of development policy in China and on modernization in Tibetan pastoralist societies. The scholarship is impeccable, offering a major contribution to knowledge about a place and a topic that are very difficult to research."—Nancy Levine, UCLA
"Ptáčková discerningly combines extensive ethnography with unique access to government documents—revealing the mixture of well-intentioned policies, negative outcomes, and human desires involved in yet another radical transformation of Tibetan rural lives under the purview of an all-powerful state."—Toni Huber, author of
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