Spoiling Tibet: China and Resource Nationalism on the Roof of the World

ISBN-13: 9781780324357 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 216 str.

Gabriel Lafitte

Opis

The mineral-rich mountains of Tibet are landscapes of solitude, where the greatest yogis withdrew from society to deeply realise the nature of the human mind. Those sacred landscapes and pilgrimage routes are now officially designated as mineral extraction enclaves.
Tibet until now has not linked meaningfully to the Chinese economy, and mining on a significant scale has been minimal. China's 12th Five-Year Plan for 2011 onwards however is due to change all of this, with massive investment in world scale mining of copper, gold, silver, chromium and lithium for the world's factory, with devastating environmental and social outcomes.
Despite great interest in Tibet worldwide, "Spoiling Tibet" is an entirely unique authoritative guide through the torrent of online posts, official propaganda and exile speculation.

Spis treści

A note on the geography of Tibet Maps of Tibet and China Introduction 1. Tibet in its own right 2. Gold rush in Tibet 3. Reach of the revolutionary state 4. Chromite globalization 5. Capitalizing on Tibet: privatizing the treasure house 6. Intensive exploitation Conclusion Notes Further reading on Tibet Index