PART I

SHANGRILAZATION

Tourism, Landscape, Identity

CHAPTER 1

VITAL MARGINS

Frontier Poetics and Landscapes of Ethnic Identity

Li-hua Ying

CHAPTER 2

DREAMWORLD, SHAMBALA, GANNAN

The Shangrilazation of China’s “Little Tibet”

Chris Vasantkumar

CHAPTER 3

A ROUTINE DISCOVERY

The Practice of Place and the Opening of the Yading Nature Reserve

Travis Klingberg

PART II

CONSTRUCTING THE ECOLOGICAL STATE

Conservation, Commodification, and Resource Governance

CHAPTER 4

MAKING NATIONAL PARKS IN YUNNAN

Shifts and Struggles within the Ecological State

John Aloysius Zinda

CHAPTER 5

THE NATURE CONSERVANCY IN SHANGRILA

Transnational Conservation and Its Critiques

Robert K. Moseley and Renée B. Mullen

CHAPTER 6

TRANSNATIONAL MATSUTAKE GOVERNANCE

Endangered Species, Contamination, and the Reemergence of Global Commodity Chains

Michael J. Hathaway

CHAPTER 7

CONSTRUCTING AND DECONSTRUCTING THE COMMONS

Caterpillar Fungus Governance in Developing Yunnan

Michelle Olsgard Stewart

PART III

CONTESTED LANDSCAPES

Harmonious Society and Sovereign Territories

CHAPTER 8

ANIMATE LANDSCAPES

Nature Conservation and the Production of Agropastoral Sacred Space in Shangrila

Chris Coggins with Gesang Zeren

CHAPTER 9

THE AMORAL OTHER

State-Led Development and Mountain Deity Cults among Tibetans in Amdo Rebgong

Charlene E. Makley

CHAPTER 10

THE RISE AND FALL OF THE GREEN TIBETAN

Contingent Collaborations and the Vicissitudes of Harmony

Emily T. Yeh