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Theory and application for warning and prediction of disastrous weather downstream from the Tibetan Plateau
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ISBN: 1621005569 9781621005568 9781621004332 1621004333 Year: 2012 Publisher: Hauppauge, New York : Nova Science Publishers,


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Breaking out of the poverty trap : case studies from the Tibetan Plateau in Yunnan, Qinghai and Gansu
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ISBN: 1938134079 1938134087 9781938134081 1299651925 9781299651920 9781938134074 9781938134074 Year: 2013 Publisher: Hackensack, N.J. : World Century Pub. Corporation,

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This book provides unique insights into the challenges and potential solutions to alleviate poverty in western China. Many people are interested in China's economic and social development; the development of Tibet is an important part of this narrative. Unlike big cities in the east of China, Tibet is still underdeveloped, with severe poverty, relatively poor communications, poor infrastructure, transport links, and limited social services. Using deep and well-researched analyses, learned Chinese scholars share their policy insights, experience and knowledge of the underlying causes and potent


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Colliding continents : a geological exploration of the Himalaya, Karakoram, and Tibet
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ISBN: 0191918245 1283943883 0191652482 9780191652486 9780199653003 0199653003 9781283943888 0191652490 9780191918247 Year: 2013 Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press,

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Gargantuan geological forces created the spectacular mountain ranges of the Himalaya and Karakoram. Mike Searle, one of the world's most experienced field geologists, tells the scientific story, illustrating it with his own photographs, and accounts of his mountaineering and research in the region.


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Social regulation : case studies from Tibetan history
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ISBN: 9789004331228 9789004331259 9004331255 9004331220 Year: 2017 Publisher: Leiden, Netherlands ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : Brill,

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In Social Regulation: Case Studies from Tibetan History the editors Jeannine Bischoff and Saul Mullard present a collection of studies of the mechanisms that regulated Tibetan societies from the 17th to the 20th centuries. Social regulations controlled, shaped and perpetuated Tibetan societies, but close analyses of these historical processes are rarely to be seen in ‘event history’ writing. The contributions to this volume explore the theme of social regulation from the perspectives of religion, politics and administration, while addressing issues of morals and values. Covering a wide range of Tibetan societies, the geographical scope of this volume extends from the Central Tibetan area to the southeastern Tibetan borderlands and the Himalayan kingdoms of Nepal and Sikkim. Contributors are: Alice Travers, Berthe Jansen, Charles Ramble, Fernanda Pirie, Jeannine Bischoff, Kalsang Norbu Gurung, Kensaku Okawa, Nyima Drandul, Peter Schwieger, Saul Mullard, Yuri Komatsubara


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Trading Caterpillar Fungus in Tibet : When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area.
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ISBN: 9048536294 9789048536290 946298526X 9789462985261 Year: 2019 Publisher: Amsterdam Amsterdam University Press

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When the demand for, and prices of caterpillar fungus (Ophiocordyceps sinensis, 'the Himalayan Viagra', long a part of traditional Chinese medicine) soared, the pastoralists of Golok on the Tibetan plateau where the fungus is endemic dug up, dried and sold the fungus to traders. In the process, these yak and sheep farmers, used to living on the edge of subsistence, became wealthy beyond their imagination. Trading Caterpillar Fungus in Tibet: When Economic Boom Hits Rural Area tells the story of what they do with the money they earned from gathering and trading caterpillar fungus, and what this money does to them, revealing a sophistication few outsiders would credit them for.

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Pilze --- Handel --- Boom --- Aphrodisiakum --- Farmers. --- Economic history. --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS --- Farmers --- Farm operators --- Operators, Farm --- Planters (Persons) --- Agriculturists --- Rural population --- Economic History. --- Tibet --- Ostasien --- China --- Tibet, Plateau of --- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) --- Chʻing-tsang Kao-yüan --- Chʻing-tsang-ta Kao-yüan --- Hsi-tsang Kao-yüan --- Hsi-tsang tʻai-ti --- Plateau of Tibet --- Qing Zang Gaoyuan --- Qinghai-Tibet Plateau --- Qinghai-Xizang Plateau --- Qingzang Gaoyuan --- Tibet, Plateau of (China) --- Tibetan Highland --- Tibetan Plateau --- Xizang Gaoyuan --- Economic conditions. --- Business economics --- Economics --- Industrial management --- Management --- Microeconomics --- Economic conditions --- History, Economic --- Tibetan Autonomous Region (China) --- Hsi-tsang tzu chih chʻü (China) --- Xizang Zizhiqu (China) --- 西藏自治区 (China) --- Hsi-tsang tzu chih chʻü jen min cheng fu (China) --- Xizang Zizhiqu ren min zheng fu (China) --- TAR (China) --- Xizang Autonomous Region (China) --- Bod Raṅ-skyoṅ-ljoṅs (China) --- Bod (China) --- Sitsang (China) --- Tibet (China) --- Thibet (China) --- Tibet-Chamdo (China) --- Tübüt (China) --- Xizang (China) --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Bod --- Chibetto --- Hsi-tsang --- Sitsang --- Thibet --- Tibbata --- Tʻibetʻŭ --- Wei-tsang --- Xi zang --- S24/0700 --- Tibet--Economy --- China, Tibet, pastoralists, caterpillar fungus. --- E-books --- Тибет (China) --- Tu̇vd (China) --- Tȯvȯd (China) --- 西藏 (China)


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In the Circle of White Stones : Moving through Seasons with Nomads of Eastern Tibet
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ISBN: 0295999497 9780295999494 9780295999470 0295999470 9780295999487 0295999489 Year: 2017 Publisher: Seattle, [Washington] ; London, [England] : University of Washington Press,

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"In this ethnographic narrative of subsistence on the Tibetan plateau, anthropologist Gillian Tan describes the life-worlds of Tibetan nomads in a region traditionally known as Kham. The people of Dora Karmo (Circle of White Stones) are pastoralists who move with their yaks from pasture to pasture and depend on the milk production of their herd for sustenance. Tan's story, based her on own experience of living through seasonal cycles with the people of Dora Karmo between 2006 and 2013, examines the community's powerful relationship with a Buddhist lama and their interactions with external agents of change. As Buddhists, they believe in the never-ending cycle of life and death through reincarnation. Death, then, is not regarded as permanent loss but as the opportunity for continual change. Portrayals of personal loss through natural causes and revenge feuds, as well as sky burials, illustrate how impermanence permeates daily life. These pastoralists have adapted since 1959 to conditions imposed by the Chinese state through a combination of acquiescence, strategy, and resistance. They have also started to participate in the markets of a rapidly modernizing China, and in projects of international development that originate outside their own belief systems and social structures. In showing how the people of Dora Karmo perceive their environment and dwell in their world, Tan calls on development agents to consider this different worldview before they initiate projects among and for nomads"...Provided by publisher.

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Nomads --- Seasons --- Pastoral systems --- Buddhists --- Ethnology --- Lamaists --- Religious adherents --- Herding systems --- Pastoralism --- Animal culture --- Livestock systems --- Herders --- Herding --- Astronomical geography --- Astronomy --- Climatology --- Meteorology --- Nomadic peoples --- Nomadism --- Pastoral peoples --- Vagabonds --- Wanderers --- Persons --- Cultural anthropology --- Ethnography --- Races of man --- Social anthropology --- Anthropology --- Human beings --- Social life and customs. --- Tan, Gillian G. --- Travel --- Tibet, Plateau of --- Chʻing-tsang Kao-yüan --- Chʻing-tsang-ta Kao-yüan --- Hsi-tsang Kao-yüan --- Hsi-tsang tʻai-ti --- Plateau of Tibet --- Qing Zang Gaoyuan --- Qinghai-Tibet Plateau --- Qinghai-Xizang Plateau --- Qingzang Gaoyuan --- Tibet, Plateau of (China) --- Tibetan Highland --- Tibetan Plateau --- Xizang Gaoyuan --- Religious life and customs. --- Description and travel. --- Ethnic relations. --- #SBIB:39A6 --- #SBIB:39A75 --- Social life and customs --- Etniciteit / Migratiebeleid en -problemen --- Etnografie: Azië --- Garze Zangzu Zizhizhou (China) --- Ganzi Zangzu Zizhizhou (China) --- Kan-tzu Tsang tsu tzu chih chou (China) --- Kandze Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture (China) --- Hsi-kʻang-sheng-tsang-tsu Tzu-chih-chʻü (China) --- Kantse Tibetan Autonomous Chou (China) --- Kan-tzu Tibetan Autonomous Chou (China) --- Kan-tzu Tibetan Autonomous District (China) --- Sikang Tibetan Autonomous District --- Dkar-mdzes Bod-rigs-rang-skyong-khul (China) --- Travel. --- Seasons. --- Pastoral systems. --- Manners and customs. --- Ethnology. --- Nomade --- Inter-ethnic relations --- Interethnic relations --- Relations among ethnic groups --- Acculturation --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Ethnic groups --- Social problems --- Sociology --- Minorities --- Race relations --- Ceremonies --- Customs, Social --- Folkways --- Social customs --- Traditions --- Usages --- Civilization --- Etiquette --- Rites and ceremonies --- Traveling --- Travelling --- Tourism --- Voyages and travels --- Tan, Gillian G --- China --- Tibet --- Tibet Autonomous Region (China) --- Bod --- Chibetto --- Hsi-tsang --- Sitsang --- Thibet --- Tibbata --- Tʻibetʻŭ --- Wei-tsang --- Xi zang --- China (Republic : 1949- ) --- Cina --- Kinë --- Cathay --- Chinese National Government --- Chung-kuo kuo min cheng fu --- Republic of China (1912-1949) --- Kuo min cheng fu (China : 1912-1949) --- Chung-hua min kuo (1912-1949) --- Kina (China) --- National Government (1912-1949) --- China (Republic : 1912-1949) --- People's Republic of China --- Chinese People's Republic --- Chung-hua jen min kung ho kuo --- Central People's Government of Communist China --- Chung yang jen min cheng fu --- Chung-hua chung yang jen min kung ho kuo --- Central Government of the People's Republic of China --- Zhonghua Renmin Gongheguo --- Zhong hua ren min gong he guo --- Kitaĭskai︠a︡ Narodnai︠a︡ Respublika --- Činská lidová republika --- RRT --- Republik Rakjat Tiongkok --- KNR --- Kytaĭsʹka Narodna Respublika --- Jumhūriyat al-Ṣīn al-Shaʻbīyah --- RRC --- Kitaĭ --- Kínai Népköztársaság --- Chūka Jinmin Kyōwakoku --- Erets Sin --- Sin --- Sāthāranarat Prachāchon Čhīn --- P.R. China --- PR China --- PRC --- P.R.C. --- Chung-kuo --- Zhongguo --- Zhonghuaminguo (1912-1949) --- Zhong guo --- Chine --- République Populaire de Chine --- República Popular China --- Catay --- VR China --- VRChina --- 中國 --- 中国 --- 中华人民共和国 --- Jhongguó --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaxu Dundadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gu̇de Nayiramdaqu Dumdadu Arad Ulus --- Bu̇gd Naĭramdakh Dundad Ard Uls --- BNKhAU --- БНХАУ --- Khi︠a︡tad --- Kitad --- Dumdadu Ulus --- Dumdad Uls --- Думдад Улс --- Kitajska --- Тибет --- Tu̇vd --- 西藏 --- Nomaden --- Wandervolk --- Nomadismus --- Tan, Gillian --- Osttibet --- Plateau of --- Ch�ing-tsang Kao-y�uan --- Ch�ing-tsang-ta Kao-y�uan --- Hsi-tsang Kao-y�uan --- Hsi-tsang t�ai-ti --- Central Asia --- 甘孜藏族自治州 (China)

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