The Battle for Fortune
State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China
State-Led Development, Personhood, and Power among Tibetans in China
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
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0 released booksStudies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University is a 18-book series first released in 1985 with contributions by Fabio Lanza, Elizabeth Lacouture, and 18 others.
