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Agriculture Sciences --- General and Others --- Agriculture --- China --- Southwest China

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In the last two decades, China's western inland region has largely been left out of the nation's economic boom. While its 355-million population accounts for 28% and its land area for 71% of China's total, the region's share of the national GDP is under 20%. Since 1999, Beijing has implemented the West China Development Program to boost the region's growth. To study the major domestic issues and the global implications of this program, the University of Victoria's Centre for Asia-Pacific Initiatives organized and hosted a multidisciplinary international conference on March 6-8, 2003. This volu

China, Northwest -- Economic conditions -- Congresses. --- China, Northwest -- Economic policy -- Congresses. --- China, Southwest -- Economic conditions -- Congresses. --- China, Southwest -- Economic policy -- Congresses. --- Business & Economics --- Economic History --- China, Northwest --- China, Southwest --- Economic policy --- Economic conditions --- Southwest China --- Northwest China

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"The Nuosu people, who were once overlords of vast tracts of farmland and forest in the uplands of southern Sichuan and neighboring provinces, are the largest division of the Yi ethnic group in southwest China. Their creation epic plots the origins of the cosmos, the sky and earth, and the living beings of land and water. This translation is a rare example in English of indigenous ethnic literature from China. Transmitted in oral and written forms for centuries among the Nuosu, The Book of Origins is performed by bimo priests and other tradition-bearers. Poetic in form, the narrative provides insights into how a clan- and caste-based society organizes itself, dictates ethics, relates to other ethnic groups, and adapts to a harsh environment. A comprehensive introduction to the translation describes the land and people, summarizes the work's themes, and discusses the significance of The Book of Origins for the understanding of folk epics, ethnoecology, and ethnic relations"--

Folk poetry, Yi --- Yi (Chinese people) --- Mythology, Chinese --- Creation --- S11/1215 --- S15/0750 --- S16/0195 --- Biblical cosmogony --- Cosmogony --- Natural theology --- Teleology --- Beginning --- Biblical cosmology --- Creation windows --- Creationism --- Evolution --- Chinese mythology --- Lolo (Chinese people) --- Lolos --- Ethnology --- Tibeto-Burman peoples --- Yi folk poetry --- Yi poetry --- Mythology --- China: Social sciences--Works on national minorities and special groups: since 1949 --- China: Language--Dialects: general and others --- China: Literature and theatrical art--Thematic studies --- Mythology, Chinese. --- Folk poetry, Yi. --- RELIGION / Comparative Religion --- BODY, MIND & SPIRIT / Spirituality / Paganism & Neo-Paganism --- Mythology. --- Southwest China. --- Southwest China --- Anthologies: general

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Eating Spring Rice is the first major ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS in China. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research (1995-2005), primarily in Yunnan Province, Sandra Teresa Hyde chronicles the rise of the HIV epidemic from the years prior to the Chinese government's acknowledgement of this public health crisis to post-reform thinking about infectious-disease management. Hyde combines innovative public health research with in-depth ethnography on the ways minorities and sex workers were marked as the principle carriers of HIV, often despite evidence to the contrary.Hyde approaches HIV/AIDS as a study of the conceptualization and the circulation of a disease across boundaries that requires different kinds of anthropological thinking and methods. She focuses on "everyday AIDS practices" to examine the links between the material and the discursive representations of HIV/AIDS. This book illustrates how representatives of the Chinese government singled out a former kingdom of Thailand, Sipsongpanna, and its indigenous ethnic group, the Tai-Lüe, as carriers of HIV due to a history of prejudice and stigma, and to the geography of the borderlands. Hyde poses questions about the cultural politics of epidemics, state-society relations, Han and non-Han ethnic dynamics, and the rise of an AIDS public health bureaucracy in the post-reform era.

AIDS (Disease) --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Government policy --- Social aspects --- 20th century. --- aids epidemic. --- anthropologists. --- chinese culture. --- chinese government. --- chinese society. --- cultural anthropology. --- cultural politics. --- ethnic discrimination. --- ethnic dynamics. --- ethnographers. --- ethnographic study. --- han. --- history of prejudice. --- hiv aids. --- infectious diseases. --- minority experience. --- post reform era. --- public health crisis. --- public health policies. --- sex workers. --- social historians. --- social stigmas. --- southwest china. --- thailand. --- yunnan province.

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Environmental Winds challenges the notion that globalized social formations emerged solely in the Global North prior to impacting the Global South. Instead, such formations have been constituted, transformed, and propelled through diverse, site-specific social interactions that complicate and defy divisions between 'global' and 'local.' The book brings the reader into the lives of Chinese scientists, officials, villagers, and expatriate conservationists who were caught up in environmental trends over the past 25 years. Hathaway reveals how global environmentalism has been enacted and altered in China, often with unanticipated effects, such as the rise of indigenous rights, or the reconfiguration of human/animal relationships, fostering what rural villagers refer to as "the revenge of wild elephants."

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