Book ID: CBB267145714

Continent in Dust: Experiments in a Chinese Weather System (2022)

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Jerry C. Zee (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 332
Language: English

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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Authors & Contributors
Fleming, James Rodger
Baker, Zeke
Herta Nöbauer
Kristian Karlo Saguin
Kato, Susumu
Sadar, Anthony J.
Concepts
Meteorology
Science and politics
Science and government
Atmosphere (Earth)
Climate and climatology
Weather control
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, late
21st century
19th century
Modern
Ancient
Places
China
United States
Tropics
Manila (Philippines)
Alberta, Canada
Ukraine
Institutions
International Geophysical Year (IGY)
Chinese Academy of Sciences
United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
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