Continent in Dust

Experiments in a Chinese Weather System

Jerry C. Zee (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

332 Seiten

2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38408-8 (ISBN)

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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?

Jerry C. Zee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Apparatus A. Nightwind
Introduction: Earthly Interphases

Part I Wind-Sand
Apparatus B. The Wind Tunnel
1. Machine Sky
Apparatus C. A Sheet of Loose Sand
2. Groundwork
Apparatus D. Five Thousand Years
3. Holding Patterns

Part II Fine Particulate Matter
4. Particulate Exposures
Apparatus E. Wildfires
5. City of Chambers

Part III Continent in Dust
Apparatus F. A Sinocene
6. Downwinds
Apparatus G. Monsters

Notes
References
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.02.2022
Reihe/Serie	Critical Environments: Nature, Science, and Politics ; 10
Zusatzinfo	23 b-w illustrations, 1 map
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-38408-3 / 0520384083
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38408-8 / 9780520384088
Zustand	Neuware