Emily Yeh
- "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
- 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鈥攁nd trouble in its wake.See more at
- 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 Boulder has unique research strengths in the
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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'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
- Congratulations Emily! Yeh's work spans many topics including critical nature/society geography, political ecology, identity, Tibet and China.