Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System Volume 10 - Paperback
by Jerry C. Zee
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Availability:In StockContributor:Jerry C. ZeeSeries:Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and PoliticsPublish date:2022-01-11Pages:332
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520384095ISBN-10:520384091UPC:9780520384095Book Category:Science, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Environmental Science, Anthropology, Public PolicyBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Environmental PolicySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1Product ID:SCYGAYY6X9
In China, the weather has changed. Decades of reform have been shadowed by a changing meteorological normal: seasonal dust storms and spectacular episodes of air pollution have reworked physical and political relations between land and air in China and downwind. Continent in Dust offers an anthropology of strange weather, focusing on intersections among statecraft, landscape, atmosphere, and society. Traveling from state engineering programs that attempt to choreograph the movement of mobile dunes in the interior, to newly reconfigured bodies and airspaces in Beijing, and beyond, this book explores contemporary China as a weather system in the making: what would it mean to understand "the rise of China" literally, as the country itself rises into the air?
Languages:EnglishPublisher:University of California PressISBN-13:9780520384095ISBN-10:520384091UPC:9780520384095Book Category:Science, Social Science, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Environmental Science, Anthropology, Public PolicyBook Topic:Cultural & Social, Environmental PolicySize:8.90 x 6.00 x 0.80 inchesWeight:1Product ID:SCYGAYY6X9
Jerry C. Zee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University.
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