Continent in Dust
Experiments in a Chinese Weather System
1st Edition
Published on 11. January 2022
332 pages
978-0-520-38410-1 (ISBN)
Description
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?
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Jerry C. Zee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and the High Meadows Environmental Institute at Princeton University.
Content
Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Apparatus A. Nightwind
Introduction: Earthly Interphases
Part I Wind-Sand
Apparatus B. The Wind Tunnel
1. Machine Sky
Apparatus C. A Sheet of Loose Sand
2. Groundwork
Apparatus D. Five Thousand Years
3. Holding Patterns
Part II Fine Particulate Matter
4. Particulate Exposures
Apparatus E. Wildfires
5. City of Chambers
Part III Continent in Dust
Apparatus F. A Sinocene
6. Downwinds
Apparatus G. Monsters
Notes
References
Index
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Apparatus A. Nightwind
Introduction: Earthly Interphases
Part I Wind-Sand
Apparatus B. The Wind Tunnel
1. Machine Sky
Apparatus C. A Sheet of Loose Sand
2. Groundwork
Apparatus D. Five Thousand Years
3. Holding Patterns
Part II Fine Particulate Matter
4. Particulate Exposures
Apparatus E. Wildfires
5. City of Chambers
Part III Continent in Dust
Apparatus F. A Sinocene
6. Downwinds
Apparatus G. Monsters
Notes
References
Index
