Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands

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Open-access edition: DOI 10.6069/9780295805023

In 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila--a place that previously had existed only in fiction--had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino-Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been the sites of numerous state projects of tourism development and nature conservation, which have...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0295993588
• ISBN13: 9780295993584
• Release Date: June 2014
• Publisher: University of Washington Press
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.0"