Continent in Dust : Experiments in a Chinese Weather System Hardback
by Jerry C. Zee
Part of the Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics series
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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?
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:332 pages, 23 b-w illustrations, 1 map
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:11/01/2022
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- ISBN:9780520384088
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:332 pages, 23 b-w illustrations, 1 map
- Publisher:University of California Press
- Publication Date:11/01/2022
- Category:
- ISBN:9780520384088