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- Title
Rise into Dust: Governing Land and Weather Systems in Contemporary China.
- Authors
ZEE, Jerry
- Abstract
Since a season of successive massive dust storms in Beijing in the early 2000s, broad political experiments in mitigating dust events have, across the capital's airshed, reconfigured the problem of land degradation as one of large-scale weather intervention. Dust storms revealed the potential of large tracts of the continental interior to become airborne. Downwind of China, they have also sparked scientific, political, and technical attempts to make sense of China's rise as a story of both political economic ascendance and the literal rise of land into the sky. This essay examines the interface of terrestrial and atmospheric processes as it conditions experiments in governing weather systems and phenomena associated with Reform and Opening.
- Subjects
CHINA; BEIJING (China); DUST storms; DUST; WEATHER; LAND degradation
- Publication
Made in China Journal, 2022, Vol 7, Issue 2, p102
- ISSN
2652-6352
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.22459/mic.07.02.2022.10