Beyond great walls : environment, identity, and development on the Chinese grasslands of Inner Mongolia /
Williams, Dee Mack.
Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press,
c2002.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [225]-246) and index.
A land and people in the way -- Land degradation and the Chinese discourse -- The ambiguities of land degradation -- The land in cultural context -- The community: history, production, and residual fear -- Enclosure and changes in physical landscape -- Enclosure and changes in social landscape -- Landscape and identity -- Implications and conclusion.
Human ecology
Ethnicity
Grassland ecology
Pastoral systems
Land degradation
Environmental degradation