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Beyond great walls : environment, identity, and development on the Chinese grasslands of Inner Mongolia /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Williams, Dee Mack
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2002]
Subjects:
Human ecology > China > Inner Mongolia.
Ethnicity > China > Inner Mongolia.
Grassland ecology > China > Inner Mongolia.
Pastoral systems > China > Inner Mongolia.
Land degradation > China > Inner Mongolia.
Environmental degradation > China > Inner Mongolia.
Inner Mongolia (China) > Environmental conditions.
Inner Mongolia (China) > Social conditions.
Table of Contents:
  • A land and people in the way
  • Land degradation and the Chinese discourse
  • The ambiguities of land degradation
  • The land in cultural context
  • The community: history, production, and residual fear
  • Enclosure and changes in physical landscape
  • Enclosure and changes in social landscape
  • Landscape and identity
  • Implications and conclusion.