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Beyond Great Walls: Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner Mongolia

Beyond Great Walls: Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner... Book Reviews Beyond Great Walls: Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner Mongolia Dee Mack Williams Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002 ISBN 0-8047-4278-2. $55.00. In recent years, reports of desertifi cation in Inner Mongolia have reached alarm- ing proportions, despite the recognition since 1984 by Chinese authorities and multi-national aid organisations that something is seriously wrong with Inner Mongoliaʼs steppe environment. Dee Mack Williamsʼs Beyond Great Walls is a timely investigation of the cultural and policy background to what appears to be an accelerating social and ecological catastrophe. For twelve months in 1993–1994, covering all but the coldest portion of the winter, Williams conducted fi eldwork in Ongniʼud Banner in Chifeng Munici- pality (formerly Juu Uda League) in eastern Inner Mongolia. The eastern part of the banner, in which is located Williamsʼs research site of Ulaanʼodu gachaa (village) of Ashikhan sumu (pastoral district) is part of the Khorchin Dunes area and is heavily Mongol in ethnic composition. (Williams throughout refers to Ashikhan as Nasihan for reasons I fi nd inexplicable.) Williams conducted his fi eld work under the auspices of the GEMS (Grassland Ecosystem of the Mongolian Steppe) project, an international project under the leadership http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Inner Asia Brill

Beyond Great Walls: Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner Mongolia

Inner Asia , Volume 5 (2): 193 – Jan 1, 2003

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Brill
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© 2003 Koninklijke Brill NV, Leiden, The Netherlands
ISSN
1464-8172
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2210-5018
DOI
10.1163/146481703793647280
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Book Reviews Beyond Great Walls: Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner Mongolia Dee Mack Williams Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002 ISBN 0-8047-4278-2. $55.00. In recent years, reports of desertifi cation in Inner Mongolia have reached alarm- ing proportions, despite the recognition since 1984 by Chinese authorities and multi-national aid organisations that something is seriously wrong with Inner Mongoliaʼs steppe environment. Dee Mack Williamsʼs Beyond Great Walls is a timely investigation of the cultural and policy background to what appears to be an accelerating social and ecological catastrophe. For twelve months in 1993–1994, covering all but the coldest portion of the winter, Williams conducted fi eldwork in Ongniʼud Banner in Chifeng Munici- pality (formerly Juu Uda League) in eastern Inner Mongolia. The eastern part of the banner, in which is located Williamsʼs research site of Ulaanʼodu gachaa (village) of Ashikhan sumu (pastoral district) is part of the Khorchin Dunes area and is heavily Mongol in ethnic composition. (Williams throughout refers to Ashikhan as Nasihan for reasons I fi nd inexplicable.) Williams conducted his fi eld work under the auspices of the GEMS (Grassland Ecosystem of the Mongolian Steppe) project, an international project under the leadership

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Published: Jan 1, 2003

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