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035 $a(OCoLC)on1090278540
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050 4 $aHC428.T48$bS85 2019
082 04 $a338.9515$223
100 1 $aSulek, Emilia Roza,$eauthor.
245 10 $aTrading caterpillar fungus in Tibet :$bwhen economic boom hits rural area /$cEmilia Roza Sulek.
264 1 $aAmsterdam :$bAmsterdam University Press,$c[2019]
264 4 $c©2019
300 $a326 pages :$billustrations (chiefly color), maps ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
336 $acartographic image$bcri$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aGlobal Asia ;$v10
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 8 $aCaterpillar fungus, often called the Himalayan Viagra, is a subject of the latest commodity boom which changed the economic fates of Tibetan pastoralists in China. This expensive medicinal resource made a spectacular market career in East Asia after the outbreak of avian influenza and SARS. Growing demand for this 'wonder drug' created for people on the Tibetan plateau where this fungus is endemic attractive income opportunities which they never had before. Tibetan pastoralists engaged in this new 'gold rush' and turned from subsistence-oriented yak and sheep breeders living in a cash-poor environment into local economic elite. This book tells a story of successful pastoralists high on the Tibetan plateau who take advantage of the economic boom in the Chinese market to accomplish their own goals. They emerge as far more sophisticated actors than most outsiders would give credit to before reading this book.
651 0 $aTibet Autonomous Region (China)$xEconomic conditions.
651 0 $aTibet, Plateau of$xEconomic conditions.
650 0 $aFarmers$zTibet, Plateau of.
830 0 $aGlobal Asia (Amsterdam, Netherlands) ;$v10.
852 00 $beal$hHC428.T48$iS825 2019g