Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System (Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics #10)

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Synopsis
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?
Copyright:
2022

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
332 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780520384101
Related ISBNs:
9780520384095, 9780520384088
Publisher:
University of California Press
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Copyrighted By:
Jerry C. Zee
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Science, Outdoors and Nature, Technology, Social Studies, Earth Sciences, Politics and Government
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Bookshare Staff
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