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Informationen zum Autor Beth Meriam is a published writer, anthropologist and researcher. Since 1994, she has worked widely across the Himalayan and Tibetan cultural region. Her 1998-99 investigation of culture, development and education in Ladakh was awarded the James Littlejohn Prize (Edinburgh, 1999). In 2001, she published 'Culture' Matters: Developing Ladakhi Education on the Margins of India via the University of Edinburgh, which was the culmination of an in-depth research project. Dr. Meriam was awarded a Cambridge University doctorate that included research undertaken while living and working with pastoralists on the Tibetan plateau, and she continued as a Research Associate at Cambridge between 2006 and 2009. Klappentext Explores shifting political rationales and cultural practices in Trindu. 1980s social and economic 'reform and opening up' in China involved limited devolution of power, localization of fiscal responsibilities, relaxation of many prohibitions. Much of society had undergone far-reaching alterations through upheavals of Maoist revolutionary era. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; List of Plates; A Note on Transliteration and Transcription; Abbreviations; Map of Qinghai within China; Map of Yushu within Qinghai; Map of Yushu Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture; Outline Map of Trinde County Town; Preface; Introduction: Opening Vistas! Bordering Spaces; 1: Reclassified Societies; 2: Stressing Development; 3: Cultivating Nationalities; 4: Civilizing Culture; 5: Empowering Locales; 6: Other Modernities; 7: Revisualizing Nationalities; Conclusion; Appendix 1: Chronology of China's Reform Era; Appendix 2: Glossary of Principal Political Terms; Bibliography
