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The Battle For Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, And Power Among Tibetans In China (Studies Of The Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

The Battle For Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, And Power Among Tibetans In China (Studies Of The Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

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Author:
Charlene E. Makley
Publisher:
Cornell University Press
Publication Date:
May 15, 2018
Number of pages:
348 pages
Language:
English
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
150171967X
ISBN-13:
9781501719677

Overview

Introduction : Olympic time and dilemmas of development in China's Tibet -- The dangers of the gift master -- The mountain deity and the state : voice, deity mediumship and land expropriation in Jima village -- Othering spaces, cementing treasure : concrete, money, and the politics of value in Kharnak village school -- The melodious sound of the right-turning conch : historiography and Buddhist counter-development in Langmo village -- Spectacular compassion : "natural" disasters, national mourning, and the unquiet dead -- Epilogue : the kindly solemn face of the female Buddha
  • | Author: Charlene E. Makley
  • | Publisher: Cornell University Press
  • | Publication Date: May 15, 2018
  • | Number of Pages: 348 pages
  • | Language: English
  • | Binding: Paperback
  • | ISBN-10: 150171967X
  • | ISBN-13: 9781501719677

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