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Continent in dust : experiments in a Chinese weather system. / Jerry C Zee.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher number: : International Book Distributors | : Flat no. 17, Prakash Apartment, 4405/2, 5 Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi.Publication details: , Oakland, California : University of California Press , 2021.Description: xviii,310p. : 24cmISBN:
  • 9780520384095
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.739 ZEE
Contents:
Apparatus A : nightwind Introduction : earthly interphases Apparatus B : the wind tunnel Machine sky Apparatus C : a sheet of loose sand Groundwork Apparatus D : five thousand years Holding patterns Particulate exposures Apparatus E : wildfires City of chambers Apparatus F : a sinocene Downwinds Apparatus G : monsters
Summary: Continent in Dust explores material permutations of sand and wind--the life and course of a Chinese dust storm, though successive phases of matter--as sites of political, anthropological, and scientific experiment. It moves from science stations, forestry and social management schemes, and sand-threatened cities in China's desertified interior, to the particulate politics of air-spacing in a dust-shocked Beijing, to the technical and political challenges of international meteorological exposures in Korea and the US, China's downwind. The manuscript offers an intervention into the political anthropology of Reform China and a new approach to studying environmental crisis as a site of social, economic, and geophysical conflict"
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Apparatus A : nightwind
Introduction : earthly interphases
Apparatus B : the wind tunnel
Machine sky
Apparatus C : a sheet of loose sand
Groundwork
Apparatus D : five thousand years
Holding patterns
Particulate exposures
Apparatus E : wildfires
City of chambers
Apparatus F : a sinocene
Downwinds
Apparatus G : monsters

Continent in Dust explores material permutations of sand and wind--the life and course of a Chinese dust storm, though successive phases of matter--as sites of political, anthropological, and scientific experiment. It moves from science stations, forestry and social management schemes, and sand-threatened cities in China's desertified interior, to the particulate politics of air-spacing in a dust-shocked Beijing, to the technical and political challenges of international meteorological exposures in Korea and the US, China's downwind. The manuscript offers an intervention into the political anthropology of Reform China and a new approach to studying environmental crisis as a site of social, economic, and geophysical conflict"

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