China's Camel Country: Livestock and Nation-Building at a Pastoral Frontier

By: White, Thomas

How animal conservation became a defense against cultural erasure

China today positions itself as a model of state-led environmentalism. On the country's arid rangelands, grassland conservation policies have targeted pastoralists and their animals, blamed for causing desertification. State environmentalism--in the form of grazing bans, enclosure, and resettlement--has transformed the lives of many ethnic minority herders in China's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295752424
• ISBN13: 9780295752426
• Release Date: August 2024
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.23 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher