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Exile from the Grasslands: Tibetan Herders and Chinese Development Projects

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Reconstructing lifeways on the Tibetan Plateau

Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295748207

At the beginning of the new millennium, the Chinese government launched the Great Opening of the West, a development strategy targeted at remote areas inhabited mainly by indigenous ethnic groups. Intended to modernize infrastructure and halt environmental degradation, its tactics in western China have resulted in the displacement of pastoral Tibetans to urban residence and sedentary livelihoods, cau...