Conserving China's Northwest Frontier : Nature, Culture, and Future

Oxford University Press

Conserving China's Northwest FrontierNature, Culture, and Future\nAuthor(s): You-Tien Hsing\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Oxford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780198867173, 978-0198867173\nSynopsis\nChina's immense northwest holds the key to the country's internal geopolitical and socioeconomic restructuring and global soft power today. In addition to hosting mega investments in energy, mining, infrastructure, and urban development, this resource-rich and ethnically diverse, yet under-studied, territory of [url] million square kilometres is leading China's rising developmental ethos of conserving nature and culture. \n\nConserving China's Northwest Frontier offers nuanced accounts of the under-studied and often misunderstood region with fresh perspectives from the ground up. Derived from decade-long ethnography in three sites in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Gansu province of the northwest from 2011 to 2022, this book also offers.