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The Barbed Walls of China: A Contemporary Grassland Drama

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2010

Dee Mack Williams
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Ethnic mongol herders in north china have traditionally enjoyed a distinctive cultural landscape. In contrast to the way dense population and intensive agriculture strictly regimented land-use practices among Han Chinese, dispersed settlement and mobile stock-herding permitted Mongol society to operate and evolve under much different spatial and ecological horizons. Such deep-rooted orientations still resist facile alignment with alien standards now imposed by Beijing, disguised as they are in the language of economic development.

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The Journal of Asian Studies , Volume 55 , Issue 3 , August 1996 , pp. 665 - 691
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Copyright © The Association for Asian Studies, Inc. 1996

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