Conserving China's Northwest Frontier

You-tien Hsing is Professor of Geography at University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Making Capitalism in China: The Taiwan Connection (Oxford University Press,1998).

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• I: Introduction: A Productive Crisis: Desertification in China's Northwest Introduction to Part I: Pastoral Possibilities In Inner Mongolia's Gobi Desert 1: A Miracle Shrub: Suosuo for Combatting Desertification 2: Mobility Under Restrictions: Ejina Herders Surviving Rangeland Conservation Introduction to Part II: Agricultural Futures of Gansu's Salty Soil 3: Hope of the Hopeless: Recharging the Dried-up Qingtu Lake in Minqin 4: Opportunity in Scarcity: Building a National Model of Water Conservancy Introduction to Part III: Agropastoral Entanglements of Inner Mongolia's Turbulent Steppes 5: Mongols as China's Triple Minority: A Comparison with Tibetans and Uyghurs 6: Land Commodification: Emperors and Princes in Central IM in the 18th-19th Centuries 7: Hydro Turfdoms: Barons, Priests and Bandits in West IM in the 19th-20th Centuries 8: Mongol Farmers: Massacre Refugees in East IM in the 20th-21st Centuries Introduction to Part IV: Sociocultural Aspirations across the Great Wall 9: Moving Up and Out: Mongol Students in China's College and Job Races 10: Popularizing the Monument: The Wild Great Walls I: Conclusion: Telling Place-Driven Stories: Methods, Analyses, and Theorization