High Lands, Pure Earth: Place Making, History, and Urban Transitions on the Tibetan Plateau

High Lands, Pure Earth foregrounds Tibetan experiences of urban transitions in China's late-reform period. In the twenty-first century, China's accelerated urbanization has transformed the Tibetan Plateau. Yet Tibetan urban experiences continue to be profoundly shaped by senses of being in the world that long predate Tibet's subjugation into the modern Chinese nation-state.

Eveline Washul adopts Indigenous studies frameworks to explore how Tibetans actively engage history, peoplehood, and pl...