Conserving China's Northwest Frontier: Nature, Culture, and Future

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You-Tien Hsing (Professor of Geography, Professor of Geography, University of California at Berkeley)

Conserving China's Northwest Frontier

Nature, Culture, and Future

You-Tien Hsing (Professor of Geography, Professor of Geography, University of California at Berkeley)

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Oxford University Press
30 July 2025

Development economics; Environmental economics; Political economy

China's immense northwest holds the key to the country's internal geopolitical and socioeconomic restructuring and global soft power today. In addition to hosting mega investments in energy, mining, infrastructure, and urban development, this resource-rich and ethnically diverse, yet under-studied, territory of 3.7 million square kilometres is leading China's rising developmental ethos of conserving nature and culture.

Conserving China's Northwest Frontier offers nuanced accounts of the under-studied and often misunderstood region with fresh perspectives from the ground up.

Derived from decade-long ethnography in three sites in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region and Gansu province of the northwest from 2011 to 2022, this book also offers an unusually expansive coverage on three counts. Topically, it integrates both environmental and heritage conservation. Temporarily, it situates the contemporary conservation politics within geopolitical, ethnoterritorial, and environmental histories of the frontier region.

Spatially, it connects multiple territorial scales from the global, national, regional, to the grassroots.

By: You-Tien Hsing (Professor of Geography Professor of Geography University of California at Berkeley)
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
ISBN: 9780198867173
ISBN 10: 0198867174
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 30 July 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

You-tien Hsing is Professor of Geography at University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of The Great Urban Transformation: Politics of Land and Property in China (Oxford University Press, 2010) and Making Capitalism in China: The Taiwan Connection (Oxford University Press,1998).