"At the start of the new millennium, the Chinese government launched an ambitious new development program with far-reaching economic, environmental, and cultural effects in remote areas inhabited mainly by indigenous ethnic groups. The Great Opening of the West program diverts pastoral Tibetans...

Intro -- Contents -- Foreword by Stevan Harrell -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Liangshan and Its Entrepreneurs -- 1 | Nuosu Traditional Culture and Social Change -- 2 | The Liangshan Economic Setting and Private Entrepreneurs -- 3 | Private Sector Development in Nine Liangshan Counties -- 4...

Introduction : Liangshan and its entrepreneurs -- Nuosu traditional culture and social change -- The Liangshan economic setting and private entrepreneurs -- Private sector development in nine Liangshan counties -- Comparative profiles of Nuosu and Han entrepreneurs -- The effect of entrepreneurs...