TY - BOOK AU - Zee, Jerry C. AU - Jerry C. Zee TI - Continent in dust: : experiments in a Chinese weather system SN - 9780520384095 U1 - 363.739 ZEE PY - 2021/// CY - , Oakland, California PB - : University of California Press KW - China KW - China 21st century KW - Dust storms Political aspects KW - Anthropology N1 - 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 N2 - 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" ER -