“Tibetan Environmentalists in China: The King of Dziâ€

Jan. 14, 2016

"Tibetan Environmentalists in China: The King of Dzi", co-translated by PhD Candidate Ian Rowen and Professor and Chair Emily Yeh , has been published by Lexington Books (Rowman and Littlefield). Originally written in Chinese journalist Liu Jianqiang, "this book weaves together the life stories of five extraordinary contemporary Tibetans involved...

Emily Yeh quoted in The Economist

Dec. 22, 2015

Emily Yeh was quoted in an article in The Economist magazine titled "The Emperor's Mighty Brother" about the caterpillar fungus and how demand for an aphrodisiac has brought unprecedented wealth to rural Tibet—and trouble in its wake. See more at The Economist >

Launch of the New Tibet Himalaya Initiative at CU

Oct. 7, 2015

The Geography Department is excited to announce the launch of the new Tibet Himalaya Initiative at CU, an interdisciplinary hub for research, teaching, and public engagement on Tibet and the Himalayas. CU Â鶹ӰԺ has unique research strengths in the study of contemporary Tibet and the Himalayas with faculty expertise in...

An Interview with Emily Yeh

June 17, 2015

Emily T. Yeh's Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development (Cornell University Press, 2013) is an award-winning critical analysis of the production and transformation of the Tibetan landscape since 1950, construing development as a "state project that is presented as a gift to the Tibetan people" especially...

Emily Yeh’s book named a Foreign Affairs best book of 2014 on Asia and the Pacific

March 27, 2015

Emily Yeh's Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development named a Foreign Affairs best book of 2014 on Asia and the Pacific.

Emily Yeh receives the E. Gene Smith Book Prize on Inner Asia for 2015

Jan. 16, 2015

Awarded by the China and Inner Asia Council (CIAC) of The Association for Asian Studies, Emily was selected to receive the E. Gene Smith Book Prize on Inner Asia. The award is given in recognition of her achievement as the author of Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of...

Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development

Nov. 5, 2013

Emily Yeh's book, Taming Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of Chinese Development published by Cornell University Press. A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year (Asia and the Pacific) Winner, E. Gene Smith Book Prize on Inner Asia (China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies)...

Emily Yeh Quoted in New York Times Article Regarding Chinese Migrant Workers in Tibet

June 24, 2010

Emily is quoted in the New York Times regarding her research on government subsidized new home development in Tibet. See more at The New York Times >

Emily Yeh Using ARRA Funding to Study Environmentalism in China and Tibet

April 27, 2010

Emily Yeh's NSF CAREER project on environmentalism in China and Tibet is featured as a "research story" on CU's ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) funding site, Yeh will apply $490,000 in ARRA funding to a research project that will focus on the emergence of environmentalism in China and Tibet...

Emily Yeh promoted to Associate Professor with tenure

April 13, 2010

Congratulations Emily! Yeh's work spans many topics including critical nature/society geography, political ecology, identity, Tibet and China.

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