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Index
- A
- agriculture, 37, 73–74, 78, 80, 87, 127
- Alleviating Poverty through Relocation (Ch. Yidi Fupin Banqian), 44, 48, 121, 127
- Amdo (region), 5, 121, 127; language, 128, 146
- Artificial Rain Project, 43, 45, 121
- B
- ’Ba’ rdzong. See Tongde (T: ’Ba’ rdzong)
- Banqian Jinmu. See Grazing Ban Resettlement (Ch: Banqian Jinmu)
- Baohuqu Guanli Sheshi yu Nengli Jianshe. See Construction of Nature Reserve Area Management Facilities and Capacities (Ch. Baohuqu Guanli Sheshi yu Nengli Jianshe)
- backwardness (Ch: luohou), 17, 18, 20, 108, 117, 129, 141; backward lifestyle, 8, 84; backward livelihood, 8, 111
- Beautiful China (Ch: Meili Zhongguo), 39
- Beautiful Countryside (Ch. Meili Xiangcun), 37, 96, 121
- Belt and Road Initiative (Ch: Yi Dai Yi Lu), 22, 23
- Bon rgya. See Wangjia (T: Bon rgya)
- Brag dkar spel. See Xinghai (T: Brag dkar spel)
- broadcasting, 16, 22, 54, 89
- ’brog pa. See pastoralist
- ’Bru dkar. See Zhigeri (T: ’Bru dkar)
- Buddhism. See religion
- C
- caterpillar, black, 93; fungus, 12, 102; caterpillar fungus as economic security, 113, 118; caterpillar fungus harvest, 80, 95, 96, 99, 111, 140; caterpillar fungus trade, 78, 101, 140
- Chab cha. See Gonghe (T: Chab cha)
- chengzhenhua. See urbanization (Ch: chengzhenhua)
- civilizing (Ch: wenminghua), 6, 7, 11, 17, 27, 129
- climate change, 30, 32
- collectivization, 32, 130
- colonialism, 17
- communes. See people’s communes
- Communist Party of China, 3, 130; Communist Party school resettlement site, 75, 76, 83, 85, 87
- Construction of Nature Reserve Area Management Facilities and Capacities (Ch. Baohuqu Guanli Sheshi yu Nengli Jianshe), 42, 121
- cooperatives, 4, 5, 108, 111, 119
- corruption, 5, 24, 59; pursuit of, 12
- county, 5, 56, 133; sedentarization, 11, 52, 55
- D
- Da’e (T: sTag mgo), 51
- dairy products. See milk
- Dar lag. See Dari (T: Dar lag)
- Dari (T: Dar lag), 50, 121, 141
- decollectivization, 32
- Deng Xiaoping, 19, 130
- desertification, 32, 41, 55, 110, 123, 134
- development (Ch. fazhan), 7, 17–26; Development and Reform Commission, 48, 54; economic, 3; how to measure, 8; of industry, 59; orchestrated, 6, 9; policies, 4, 14, 27–31, 34; “with Chinese characteristics,” 16
- dMe shul. See Maixiu (T: dMe shul)
- dPyi sa. See Xibusha (T: dPyi sa)
- droma (Potentilla anserina), 101
- dung. See yak dung
- Duofudun (T: sTobs ldan), 12, 46, 88–96, 136, 141, 142
- Duohemao (T: rDo dkar mo), 38, 39, 75, 76, 83, 84, 142
- Duolong (T: rDo lung), 75, 76, 84, 89
- E
- earth banks, 34; Putting in Order Black Earth Banks (Ch: Heitutan Zhili), 40, 41
- ecological degradation, 7, 9
- Ecological Protection and Construction, 40–45
- Ecological Resettlement (Ch: Shengtai Yimin), 31, 40–45, 47, 52–53, 54–59, 60, 76, 78–81, 82–103, 106
- education, 58, 59, 71, 96, 105, 111, 116, 139, 140, 146
- Eight-Seven Poverty Alleviation Reinforcement Plan, 54
- enclosure, grassland, 34, 40, 41, 73, 118, 122, 129
- environment, protection of, 30–31
- erosion, 9, 30, 33, 34, 51, 55, 74, 103, 104
- ethnicity, 17; ethnic minorities, 20, 25; tourism, 12, 112
- exclosure, 51, 53, 112
- F
- farming. See agriculture
- fazhan. See development (Ch. fazhan)
- fencing, 32, 33, 40, 41, 43, 47, 51, 71–74, 142, 147
- Five-Year Plan, 9, 130; Eleventh, 28, 78, 127, 147; Tenth, 22, 137; Twelfth, 82
- G
- Gaige Kaifang. See Reform and Opening (Ch: Gaige Kaifang)
- Gansu Province, 20, 21, 36, 50, 56, 75, 77, 85, 122
- globalization, 7, 9, 136
- Golmud, 22, 36
- Gonghe (T: Chab cha), 53, 122
- government, 23, 87, 92, 94, 110, 114, 117, 129; assistance, 29, 47, 51, 58, 60, 64, 69, 85, 93; development plan of, 17, 63, 71–72, 78, 100, 112–13, 139; investment, 22, 40, 48, 61, 70, 75–77, 104, 136; local, 68, 89; nongovernmental, 49, 95; policy, 14, 15, 32, 33, 103, 107, 115; provincial, 12, 35, 49; report, 97–98, 140; representatives, 52, 53, 57. See also state
- grassland, 12, 30, 98, 100, 103–4; capacity, 52, 73; degradation of, 31–35, 75, 79; distribution, 47, 108; ecosystem, 9, 92; management, 5, 31, 48, 50–53, 71–74, 93, 118; resting, 34, 51, 52, 54; restoration of, 22, 54–55; summer, 11, 71–72; usage rights, 19, 33, 53, 55, 71, 72, 81, 94, 119, 134; winter, 11, 32, 63, 64, 71–72, 104, 136
- Grazing Ban Resettlement (Ch: Banqian Jinmu), 41, 47, 50, 51, 52–59, 78, 122, 138
- Great Opening of the West (Ch: Xibu da Kaifa), 6, 12–14, 17–26, 28, 118, 127–28, 130, 131; environmental protection and, 31, 50; investment, 40, 70; sedentarization, 75, 118
- greenhouse, 76, 89, 101, 113; double-use, 54, 56, 75, 100
- Guanxiu (T: mGon shul), forest, 39, 122, 141
- Guinan (T: Mang ra), 38, 53, 83, 116, 122, 138
- Guoluo (T: mGo log), 35, 36, 50; income, 141; sedentarization, 61, 63–65, 79; subsidy, 52; tax, 134
- H
- Hainan (T: mTsho lho), 35, 36, 37; fencing, 51; sedentarization, 61; subsidy, 52, 138
- Haixi (T: mTsho nub), 35, 36, 61
- Han, 23, 85, 96, 146; migrants, 25, 26, 57, 69; society, 116
- harmonious society (Ch: Hexie Shehui), 23, 25, 114–17, 115
- health care, 22, 54, 56, 100, 111
- Heitutan Zhili. See earth banks
- Henan (T: Sog po), 39, 68; sedentarization, 57, 102–3, 144
- herding. See pastoralism
- Heri (T: Hor), 38, 141, 142; farming, 73; sedentarization, 75, 76, 77, 80, 83, 99–102; subsidy, 106
- Hexie Shehui. See harmonious society (Ch: Hexie Shehui)
- Hongyuan (T: rKa khog), 34, 51, 60, 63–7
- Hor. See Heri (T: Hor)
- Household Responsibility System (Ch: Jiating Lianchan Chengbao Zeren Zhi), 6, 33, 47, 123
- Hu Jintao, 114
- Huangnan (T: rMa lho), 36, 68; income, 141; livestock reduction, 78; Sanjiangyuan, 35, 37; sedentarization, 61, 67, 77, 144; subsidy, 52
- Hui. See Muslims
- I
- industry, 18, 31, 59; animal husbandry, 110; tourism, 23, 113
- infrastructure, 8, 18, 19, 29, 111, 128; development of, 20–22, 24, 28, 34, 69–70, 110; networks, 16, 114, 116
- Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, 20, 21, 50
- J
- Jiang Zemin, 20, 129, 131
- Jiating Lianchan Chengbao Zeren Zhi. See Household Responsibility System (Ch: Jiating Lianchan Chengbao Zeren Zhi)
- Jihua Shengyu. See One-Child Policy (Ch: Jihua Shengyu)
- Jingzhun Fupin. See Targeted Poverty Alleviation (Ch: Jingzhun Fupin)
- K
- Kekexili, 39
- Korea. See South Korea
- L
- labtse, 116
- Laka, resettlement site, 75, 76, 82, 85, 88, 89, 123
- Lhasa, 21, 22, 57
- livestock, 87, 92; fattening, 98; products, 108, 111; protection, 108; reduction, 33, 52–59, 78, 94, 98, 138, 138, 142
- Longzang (T: Lung bzang), 5, 76, 84, 89, 90, 123
- Lung bzang. See Longzang (T: Lung bzang)
- luohou. See backwardness (Ch: luohou)
- M
- Maduo (T: rMa stod), 39; resettlement, 78–81, 86, 116
- Maixiu (T: dMe shul), 39, 46, 68, 87, 90, 123, 141; forest, 12, 84, 89
- Mang ra. See Guinan (T: Mang ra)
- Mao Zedong: campaigns, 130; era, 129; post Mao, 27
- Maqin (T: rMa chen), 38, 57, 67; caterpillar fungus, 140; sedentarization, 63–65, 83, 104, 136
- mass resettlement, 47, 58. See also sedentarization
- Meili Xiangcun. See Beautiful Countryside (Ch. Meili Xiangcun)
- Meili Zhongguo. See Beautiful China (Ch: Meili Zhongguo)
- Mekong River, 13, 35, 36, 123, 135
- mGo log. See Guoluo (T: mGo log)
- mGon shul. See Guanxiu (T: mGon shul)
- migration, 32, 57, 116; “Ecological Migration,” 54; economic, 23, 24; to encourage integration, 26; resettlement, 49, 55, 133
- milk: consumption, 99, 101, 111; products for sale or exchange, 88, 90; tea, 94
- mining, 12, 24, 31, 93
- minzu tuanjie. See unity of the nationalities (Ch: minzu tuanjie)
- modernization (Ch: xiandaihua), 69, 113, 116, 117, 128, 134; of education, 71; funds, 75; modern commodities, 6, 65; modern society, 8, 95, 103, 111; of pastoralism, 108, 110; through sedentarization, 5, 6, 7, 28, 115, 118, 127; as state policy, 3, 12, 17–18, 37, 84, 105, 147
- mTso lho. See Hainan (T: mTsho lho)
- mTsho nub. See Haixi (T: mTsho nub)
- Muslims, 142; Chinese Muslims, 85; Hui, 20, 21, 96, 142; Salar, 142
- N
- nation-building, 8, 23
- New Village Movement (Korean: Saemaul Undong), 27
- Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, 20, 21, 50, 54
- Ningxiu (T: Nyin shul), 38, 62, 75, 77, 83, 84, 97–99, 123, 136, 142, 143
- Nomadic Settlement (Ch: You Mumin Dingju), 42–43, 59–67, 83, 103–7, 111, 138, 147; comfortable living, 110; mass sedentarization, 47, 95; population control, 30, 114
- nomads. See pastoralists
- Nyin shul. See Ningxiu (T: Nyin shul)
- O
- Ochotona curzoniae. See plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae)
- One-Child Policy (Ch: Jihua Shengyu), 123; family planning, 73
- Opening of the West (Ch: Xibu Kaifa), campaign, 18
- organic food, 108
- P
- pastoralism: areas, 12; banning, 9; elimination of, 117; as environmental threat, 7, 8, 31–35, 118; mobile, 6; patterns of, 71–74
- pastoralists, 6, 35, 127; alternative employment, 113; discontent with governmental support, 115; disputes among, 30; experiences of, 34; income, 111–12; lifestyle, 31, 47; livelihood improvement of, 4, 5; as obstacles to progress, 28, 110; as passive recipients of “development,” 28; as policy recipients, 109; population, xii, 73. See also pastoralism; sedentarization
- pasture. See grassland
- people’s communes, 5, 6, 19, 32, 71, 73, 142
- plateau pika (Ochotona curzoniae), 32, 55, 80, 93, 123; elimination of, 31, 34, 41, 135
- policy, 7, 17, 30, 109, 128, 129; achievements of, 8; agriculture, 74; development, xi, 19–23, 35, 40–44, 110; environmental, 9, 50–53, 74; family planning, 73; fencing, 72; grassland, 32–33, 35, 138; implementation, 48, 107, 137; outcomes, 4, 24–26, 119; policymaking, xii, 109; sedentarization, 49, 54–63, 86, 113
- population, control, 73, 114
- Potentilla anserine. See droma (Potentilla anserine)
- poverty: alleviation of, 3, 9, 23, 28–29, 48, 52, 133; and land distribution, 47; line, 4, 29, 133; through resettlement, 5, 54, 57, 82–85, 111; Sanjiangyuan, 39
- Prevention of Rodent Harm (Ch: Shuhai Fazhi), 31, 34, 40, 41, 124, 135
- Project to Increase Living Comfort (Ch: Wenbao Gongcheng), 47, 123
- Putting in Order Black Earth Banks (Ch: Heitutan Zhili). See earth banks
- R
- railway, 16, 22
- rDo dkar mo. See Duohemao (T: rDo dkar mo)
- rDo lung. See Duolong (T: rDo lung)
- reform, 17, 18, 23; Development and Reform Commission, 48, 54, 103; land reform, 6, 32, 34, 71; “unbalanced development,” 19, 130
- Reform and Opening (Ch: Gaige Kaifang), 27
- religion, 132; public spaces, 116; rituals, 111, 116
- relocation, 9, 46, 48–49, 54, 76, 93, 82–108, 133, 137; costs for, 75; to relieve pressure on the grasslands, 59, 80; supra-regional, 55. See also resettlement; sedentarization
- resettlement, 47, 58. See also sedentarization
- Returning Farmland to Forest (Ch: Tuigeng Huanlin), 22, 31, 41, 50, 124, 133, 137
- Returning Farmland to Grassland (Ch: Tuigeng Huancao), 22, 31, 41, 50, 124, 138
- Returning Pastureland to Forest (Ch: Tuimu Huanlin), 50, 124
- Returning Pastureland to Grassland (Ch: (Tuimu Huancao), 31, 40–41, 45, 50–59, 74, 76, 78, 110, 137, 138
- rKa khog. See Hongyuan (T: rKa khog)
- rMa chen. See Maqin (T: rMa chen)
- rMa lho. See Huangnan (T: rMa lho)
- rMa stod. See Maduo (T: rMa stod)
- rTse khog. See Zeku (T: rTse khog)
- S
- Saemaul Undong. See New Village Movement (Korean: Saemaul Undong)
- Sanjiangyuan National Park (Ch: Sanjiangyuan Guojia Gongyuan), 39
- school attendance, 58, 80, 81, 85, 90, 102, 139, 140
- sedentarization, 8, 14, 19, 27–28, 29, 41–44, 45, 46–67, 82–108; enforcing development through, 75–78; failure of, 14, 24, 114, 115; forced resettlement, 7; mass, 4, 7, 27, 47, 82, 114, 117; resettlement, 40, 78–81, 116, 133; settlement, 14, 133. See also relocation; resettlement
- self-immolation, 26
- Set of Four (Ch: Sipeitao), 47, 60, 124, 136
- settlement. See under sedentarization
- sheep. See livestock
- sheep unit (Ch: yang danwei), 78, 98, 133, 142, 143
- Shehui Zhuyi Xin Nongcun. See Socialist New Countryside (Ch: Shehui Zhuyi Xin Nongcun)
- Shengtai Yimin. See Ecological Resettlement (Ch: Shengtai Yimin)
- Shuhai Fazhi. See Prevention of Rodent Harm (Ch: Shuhai Fazhi)
- Sichuan Province, 20, 21, 34, 36, 50, 51, 63, 65, 77, 127
- Sipeitao. See Set of Four (Ch: Sipeitao)
- Small Town Constructions (Ch: Xiaocheng Zhen Jianshe), 42, 44, 45, 47, 59, 124
- Socialist New Countryside (Ch: Shehui Zhuyi Xin Nongcun), 27, 28, 132
- Sog po. See Henan (T: Sog po)
- South Korea, 20, 27
- stone carving, 12, 99–101
- sTag mo. See Da’e (T: sTag mgo)
- state, 3, 16, 19, 27, 31, 49, 96, 101, 113; assistance, 3, 8, 22, 28, 63–65, 90, 106, 112, 131; economy, 23; interest, 12; policy, 7, 17, 37, 115; state-induced development, xi, 6, 109, 114, 119, 128; state-owned land, 33, 56, 134. See also government
- sTobs ldan. See Duofudun (T: sTobs ldan)
- stupa, 116
- subsidy, 29, 41, 48, 51, 55, 69, 78, 80, 85, 106; to alleviate poverty, 22, 28, 65; card, 52; direct, 25; distribution, 53, 93, 100, 107, 113–14, 116; grain, 52; income, 4, 98, 111, 112; indirect, 25
- surveillance, 7, 114
- sustainability, 24, 118; income sources, 110; of livelihood, 3, 8, 18, 95; of pastureland use, 32–33
- T
- Targeted Poverty Alleviation (Ch: Jingzhun Fupin), 3, 4, 5, 29, 44, 46, 108, 124, 129
- tax, 69, 111, 134
- tent, black, 72; living in, 136; white cotton, 72
- Three Rivers’ Headwaters Preservation Zone, 35–45, 135; Sanjiangyuan, 35–45, 49, 91; Sanjiangyuan office, 54, 77, 82, 113; Sanjiangyuan policy, 78, 89; sedentariaztion in, 46, 102, 116, 129, 133; SNNR, 35–45, 48, 49, 51, 59, 82, 84, 137
- Tibet Autonomous Region, 20, 21, 22, 36, 50
- Tibetan Plateau, 3, 4, 5, 7, 58, 110; deterioration on, 6, 104; development of, 9, 22, 117–18; ecosystem of, 35; pastoralism and, 32
- Tongde (T: ’Ba’ rdzong), 38, 53, 78, 79, 83, 124, 144
- Tongren, 12, 38, 61, 68, 69, 141; Longwu, 124, 141; Rebgong, 124; resettlement sites, 75–78, 82, 83, 84, 85–88, 91, 94
- tourism, 12, 16, 19, 39, 113, 116; as development strategy, 37, 59, 62, 78, 112, 131; ecotourism, 23
- township, 35, 52, 70, 115, 129, 142; government, 29, 53, 65, 134; residents, 4; sedentarization, 56, 58, 82, 84, 90–94, 103; xiang, 46
- Tuigeng Huancao. See Returning Farmland to Grassland (Ch: Tuigeng Huancao)
- Tuigeng Huanlin. See Returning Farmland to Forest (Ch: Tuigeng Huanlin)
- Tuimu Huancao. See Returning Pastureland to Grassland (Ch: (Tuimu Huancao)
- Tuimu Huanlin. See Returning Pastureland to Forest (Ch: Tuimu Huanlin)
- U
- underdevelopment. See backwardness (Ch: luohou)
- unity of the nationalities (Ch: minzu tuanjie), 12
- urbanization (Ch: chengzhenhua), 24, 28, 31, 59, 116; adaptation, 94, 98, 111; sedentarization, 7, 106; urban environment, 6, 37, 113; urban livelihood, 29, 56, 62, 85, 95; urban population, 9; urban status, 8, 46, 87
- W
- Wangjia (T: Bon rgya), 38, 73, 74, 80, 83, 124, 141, 142
- Water Tower of China (Ch: Zhonghua Shuita) 35, 124
- Wenbao Gongcheng. See Project to Increase Living Comfort (Ch: Wenbao Gongcheng)
- wenminghua. See civilizing (Ch: wenminghua)
- wildlife: competing with domestic herds, 99; conservation, 34; habitats, 35–36, 109; killing, 34; protection, 42, 54
- X
- xiandaihua. See modernization (Ch: xiandaihua)
- Xiaocheng Zhen Jianshe. See Small Town Constructions (Ch: Xiaocheng Zhen Jianshe)
- Xibu Kaifa. See Opening of the West (Ch: Xibu Kaifa)
- Xibu da Kaifa. See Great Opening of the West (Ch: Xibu da Kaifa)
- Xibusha (T: dPyi sa), 38, 39, 76, 83, 125, 136, 141, 142
- Xi Jinping, 3, 39
- Xinghai (T: Brag dkar spel), 53, 125
- Xining, 22, 36, 38, 59, 83, 85; “summer capital,” 131
- Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, 20, 21, 22, 36, 50
- Y
- yak: hair, 72; herder, 16; wild, 37; wool, 72. See livestock
- yak dung, 94; collecting and selling, 101; for heating, 100
- Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture, 20
- yang danwei. See sheep unit (Ch: yang danwei)
- Yangzi River, 13, 22, 30, 31, 35, 36, 125, 135
- Yellow River, 13, 30, 31, 36, 54, 125, 135, 141
- Yi Dai Yi Lu. See Belt and Road Initiative (Ch: Yi Dai Yi Lu)
- Yidi Fupin Banqian. See Alleviating Poverty through Relocation (Ch. Yidi Fupin Banqian)
- You Mumin Dingju. See Nomadic Settlement (Ch: You Mumin Dingju)
- Yul shul. See Yushu (T: Yul shul)
- Yushu (T: Yul shul), 22, 35, 36, 52, 61, 125, 141
- Z
- Zeku (T: rTse khog), 5, 12–15, 21, 39, 40, 48, 53, 58–59, 68–81, 82–108
- Zequ, 59, 68, 125, 142
- Zhigeri (T: ’Bru dkar), 75, 97, 143
- zone: buffer, 37–39, 44, 51; core, 37–39, 44, 51, 82, 84, 137, 144; experimental, 37–39, 44, 51