Conserving China's Northwest Frontier: Nature, Culture, and Future

China's immense northwest holds the key to the country's internal geopolitical and socioeconomic restructuring and global soft power today. In addition to hosting mega investments in energy, mining, infrastructure, and urban development, this resource-rich and ethnically diverse, yet under-studied, territory of 3.7 million square kilometres is leading China's rising developmental ethos of conserving nature and culture. Conserving China's Northwest Frontier offers nuanced accounts of the und...