Continent in Dust Experiments in a Chinese Weather System - Critical Environments. Nature, Science, and Politics

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?  

ISBN:	9780520384088
Publisher:	University of California Press
Imprint:	University of California Press
Published date:	11 Jan 2022
DEWEY:	363.73920951
DEWEY edition:	23
Language:	English
Number of pages:	332
Weight:	590g
Height:	229mm
Width:	152mm
Spine width:	25mm

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