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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Inner Mongolia"”.
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Conquest and change : Mongol herding in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia
I examine changing herding practices in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia, contrasting the perspectives of herders with those of local officials and scientists. I also carried out comparative fieldwork in a similar steppe environment in Mongolia. I present a model for research which involves exploring …
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Recent changes in land use and productivity in agro-pastoral Inner Mongolia, China
… in 1978. Land-use and productivity trends in the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR), with special attention to the Keerqin steppe region, have been analysed. A combination of methods including household surveys, analysis of agro-statistics and satellite-based productivity modelling has been …
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Left-Behind Children in Rural China: Research Based on the Use of Qualitative Methods in Inner Mongolia
There is a dearth of knowledge about the experiences of primary school aged left-behind children in the family, school and the community. The term “left-behind children” has occurred in a variety of literature in China since the end of 1980s when the huge population flows from rural areas to urban …
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An analysis of long-term effects of climate change and socioeconomic activities on grassland productivity of inner Mongolia
… climate change, and socioeconomic development of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (IMAR) of China. Our attempt began with acquiring remotely sensed satellite imagery, climatic variations, and aggregated annual reports of the socio-economy of the IMAR in vegetation growing seasons for 15 years. The …
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The relationship between the exercise of political power and language during the cultural revolution in Inner Mongolia - 1967-1969
… authority from the Cultural Revolution in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region of the People's Republic of China from 1967 to 1969. It is based on analytic methods found in the works of Foucault, Bourdieu, Gramsci and others. The material analysed falls into four periods. The first phase in …
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Words Flying on the Wind: Buriat Mongolian Children in a Chinese Bilingual School
… as they attended a bilingual school in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia, China. They migrated in order to start language studies which would eventually allow them to study alternative Mongolian medicine in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia. Both the Russian Federation and the Republic of China are countries in …
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Linking plant traits and herbivory in grassland biodiversity-ecosystem functioning research
… carried out in the understudied grasslands of Inner Mongolia, China. I found that a dominant generalist grasshopper Oedaleus asiaticus exhibits feeding preference for plants of high palatability when equally available, but in the field feeds on nearly any graminoid which is dominant. This …
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Mongolian Folklore Expressed through Music Technology Original Multimedia Soundtrack on Horseback
I returned to my hometown and recorded Mongolian folk music- Mongolian Long Song and Mongolian Throat Singing. I wanted to combine technology and traditional folk music and write an electronic piece based on Mongolian vocal materials. I used what I've sampled, manipulated the sounds, composed the …
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Making Mongols: Representations of Culture, Identity, and Resistance
… and assimilation policies have threatened Mongolian cultural identity. In response to this cultural identity anxiety, Mongols in Inner Mongolia have looked for ways to express their distinct cultural identity. This dissertation analyzes three case studies derived from material cultural …
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Ma Sicong's Violin Artistry and Compositions
… solos with a distinct national identity.The Inner Mongolia Suite and First Rondo by Ma Sicong, both of which are considered among the most outstanding violin solos ever written for the instrument, are examined in this dissertation, as is the composer's own playing experience, to gain a better …
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Teaching and learning of number concept in Chinese primary classroom
… broadly, within a classroom context in China's Inner Mongolia province. Informed by Vygotsky's cultural historical theoretical framework, and using an ethnographic approach - with triangulated data collection methods, the research examined a teacher's approaches to teaching primary mathematical …
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Informational Environmental Regulation in Practice
… in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu province and Hohhot, Inner Mongolia between 1999 and 2000. Mixed results have been found. The disclosure program was sustained in Zhenjiang but was stopped in Hohhot only after the pilot phase. Furthermore, there has been no extensive research on how an informational …
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The ghost city of China : a revitalization strategy for Ordos
… version of Ghost Cities, Ordos, a city in Inner Mongolia, was once a village on desert with only two thousand people. Thanks to the discovery of huge coal and oil deposits, the city generated immense amounts of wealth and spent billions of dollars on urbanization. However, the fantasy did …
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China energy issues : energy intensity, coal liquefaction, and carbon pricing
… three provinces seem especially interesting: Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, and Ningxia, because they represent three typical El trends in China, increasing, nearly constant, and decreasing. Then why and what is the driver for this difference in energy-intensity trends? I argue that technology …
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The Cult of Chinggis Khan in the Dayan Khanid Period
… Činggis Qan and his empire were remembered in Mongolia in the post-imperial period — that is, from 1368, when the last Mongol emperor fled his capital in Daidu (present day Beijing), until the Mongol princedoms were rolled up into the incipient Qing Empire in the first half of 1600s. For the …
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Seeds of Struggle: A Political Ecology of Millet Growing in Aohan, China
… millet industry. My primary field site, Aohan in Inner Mongolia, China, is considered the centre of origin for foxtail millet. Tracing webs of relations, I studied Wangjinzhuang village in Hebei Province where, similar to Aohan, there is a community seed bank facilitating the exchange of local …