Borderline Gardening

Based on ethnographic fieldwork among Chinese nationals working in Mongolia, this research note explores various forms of gardening that unfolded as side-projects at sites where Chinese enterprises were engaged in the extraction of oil, zinc and fluorspar. At first, the organisation and activities of these Chinese operations appeared to stem from a penchant for walled compounds and gardening. However, on closer inspection, the horticultural enclaves were not really a unilateral imposition of a culturally determined aesthetics, but rather the outcome of a negotiation, informed by prevailing ethnic stereotypes, of the proper form a Chinese presence could assume in Mongolia

Robert P. Weller: Discovering Nature: Globalization and Environmental Culture in China and Taiwan. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2006. 189 sider. Illus. ISBN 0-521-54841-1 (pb). Pris: £15.99, 27.99.ISBN0−521−83959−9(hb).Pris:£40,27.99. ISBN 0-521-83959-9 (hb). Pris: £40, 70.

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Mary Rack: Ethnic Distinctions, Local Meanings: Negotiating Cultural Identities in China

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