The violent protests in Lhasa in 2008 against Chinese rule were met by disbelief and anger on the part of Chinese citizens and state authorities, perplexed by Tibetans apparent ingratitude for the generous provision of development. In Taming Tibet, Emily T. Yeh examines how Chinese development projects in Tibet served to consolidate state space and power. Drawing on sixteen months of ethnographic fieldwork between 2000 and 2009, Yeh traces how the transformation of the material landscape of Tibet between the 1950s and the first decade of the twenty-first century has often been enacted through the labor of Tibetans themselves. Focusing on Lhasa, Yeh shows how attempts to foster and improve Tibetan livelihoods through the expansion of markets and the subsidized building of new houses, the control over movement and space, and the education of Tibetan desires for development have worked together at different times and how they are experienced in everyday life.


ISBN:9789382993995

Author:Emily T Yeh

Publisher:Cornell University Press

Publish Year:2014

Edition:First South Asian Edition

Cover:Paper Back

Subject:Tibet | Tibetan History | Tibetan Politics

Language:English

Remarks:B&W Photographs, Illustrations, Map, Notes and Index.

Pages:324

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