The Battle For Fortune: State-Led Development, Personhood, And Power Among Tibetans In China (Studies Of The Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)

Introduction : Olympic time and dilemmas of development in China's Tibet -- The dangers of the gift master -- The mountain deity and the state : voice, deity mediumship and land expropriation in Jima village -- Othering spaces, cementing treasure : concrete, money, and the politics of value in Kharnak village school -- The melodious sound of the right-turning conch : historiography and Buddhist counter-development in Langmo village -- Spectacular compassion : "natural" disasters, national mourning, and the unquiet dead -- Epilogue : the kindly solemn face of the female Buddha

• | Author: Charlene E. Makley
• | Publisher: Cornell University Press
• | Publication Date: May 15, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 348 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 150171967X
• | ISBN-13: 9781501719677