Emily Yeh

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—and trouble in its wake. See more at The Economist >

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 study of contemporary Tibet and the Himalayas with faculty expertise in...

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 development as a "state project that is presented as a gift to the Tibetan people" especially...

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 Tibet: Landscape Transformation and the Gift of...

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 (China and Inner Asia Council of the Association for Asian Studies)...

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 on the emergence of environmentalism in China and Tibet...

Congratulations Emily! Yeh's work spans many topics including critical nature/society geography, political ecology, identity, Tibet and China.

Emily Yeh won the 2009 Leopold-Hidy Prize from the journal Environmental History for best journal article of the year. Emily's winning paper, "From wasteland to wetland? Nature and nation in China's Tibet," examines the social relations and politics of China's environmental policies and practices in Tibet. The prize includes a...