1 article tagged with Xishuangbanna
Anthropology
Xishuangbanna: A Green Desert and a Golden Wonder — Dual “Reformatting” and Ecological Collapse
The final chapter of the Southwestern frontier fieldwork: examining how state-driven high modernism and consumerist cultural tourism in Xishuangbanna enacted a dual reformatting of rainforest ecology and Theravada Buddhist sacredness, producing a green desert draped in gold leaf.
Zichen (Iris) Zhu
