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Names: Ptáčková, Jarmila, author.
Title: Exile from the Grasslands : Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects / Jarmila Ptáčková.
Description: Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2020] | Series: Studies on ethnic groups in China
Identifiers: LCCN 2020020397 (print) | LCCN 2020020398 (ebook) | ISBN 9780295748184 (hardcover) | ISBN 9780295748191 (paperback) | ISBN 9780295748207 (ebook)
Subjects: LCSH: Tibetans—Cultural assimilation–China–Zêkog Xian. | Nomads—Sedentarization—China—Qinghai Sheng. | Herders—China—Qinghai Sheng. | Tibetans—China—Zêkog Xian—Economic conditions. | Grasslands—China—Qinghai Sheng—Management. | Range policy—China—Qinghai Sheng. | Forced migration—China—Qinghai Sheng. | Pastoral systems—China—Qinghai Sheng. | Economic development projects—China—Zêkog Xian. | Zêkog Xian (China)—Economic conditions—21st century.
Classification: LCC DS793.T7 P73 2020 (print) | LCC DS793.T7 (ebook) | DDC 323.1195/4105147—dc23
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