Dee Mack Williams. Beyond Great Walls: Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner Mongolia.(Book Review)

From: China Review International | Date: March 22, 2003| Author: Endicott, Elizabeth | Copyright information

Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2002. xii, 251 pp. Hardcover $55.00, ISBN 0-8047-4278-2.

Dee Mack Williams' Beyond Great Walls: Environment, Identity, and Development on the Chinese Grasslands of Inner Mongolia will appeal to diverse categories of readers: ethnographers and anthropologists, environmental historians, economic and social historians who focus on the post-collectivization era in China, theorists in the field of comparative pastoral nomadism, and any rea...

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