Continent in Dust : Experiments in a Chinese Weather System
by
Jerry C. Zee
Book Details
Format
Paperback / Softback
ISBN-10
0520384091
ISBN-13
9780520384095
Publisher
University of California Press
Imprint
University of California Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 11th, 2022
Print length
332 Pages
Weight
464 grams
Dimensions
15.30 x 22.80 x 2.30 cms
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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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