UID:
almafu_9961448833802883
Umfang:
1 online resource (348 pages)
ISBN:
0-520-38410-5
Serie:
Critical environments: nature, science, and politics ; 10
Inhalt:
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?.
Anmerkung:
Intro -- Subvention -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Apparatus A. Nightwind -- Introduction: Earthly Interphases -- Part I Wind-Sand -- Apparatus B. The Wind Tunnel -- 1. Machine Sky -- Apparatus C. A Sheet Of Loose Sand -- 2. Groundwork -- Apparatus D. Five Thousand Years -- 3. Holding Patterns -- Part II Fine Particulate Matter -- 4. Particulate Exposures -- Apparatus E. Wildfires -- 5. City of Chambers -- Part III Continent in Dust -- Apparatus F. A Sinocene -- 6. Downwinds -- Apparatus G. Monsters -- Notes -- References -- Index.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Zee, Jerry C. Continent in Dust Berkeley : University of California Press,c2022 ISBN 9780520384088
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780520384095
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1525/9780520384101
