Woodslane | Book - 9781498519540

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ISBN-13: 9781498519540
Publisher: ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD PUBLISHERS
Imprint: LEXINGTON BOOKS
By Gregory Rohlf
Price: AUD $115.00
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Local release date: 14/11/2017
Format: Paperback 308 pages Weight: 0g
Categories: Asian history [HBJF]

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Google Preview: Building New China, Colonizing Kokonor: Resettlement to Amdo and Qinghai in the 1950s examines rural resettlement to the Sino-Tibetan cultural borderlands in the 1950s. More than 100,000 eastern Han and Hui Chinese were sent to Qinghai province-known in Mongolian as Kokonor and Amdo to Tibetans-to plow up new fields in areas that were being incorporated into the Chinese state for the first time. The settlers were to bring their skilled labor, literacy, and modern thinking to "backward" Qinghai to fully exploit its natural resources of oil, natural gas, gold, and empty lands for the benefit of the industrializing nation. The book is a social and political history of resettlement, focusing on the people who were moved and the overall impact the program had on the province. It is a frontier history, but it also narrates a story of state building in modern China that spans the twentieth century and the opening years of the twenty-first.; Chapter 1: The History and Rationales for Agricultural Resettlement to Border Regions, 1920-1955 Chapter 2: Resettlement Becomes a Frontier Policy, 1955-1956 Chapter 3: Moving West, 1955-1956 Chapter 4: Raising Incomes, Making Homes, 1956-1957 Chapter 5: Ethnic and Social Problems in First Wave Resettlement, 1956-1957 Chapter 6: From First Wave to Second Wave Resettlement, 1957-1958 Chapter 7: Colonizing Kokonor, 1958-1962; Google Preview content