ZHU, Qian. 2022. River-sand Mining: An Ethnography of Resource Conflict in China. Leiden: Brill

China is a resource-rich country hosting a large variety of mineral resources, and the extractive industries play important roles in the local economy of many regions. But the environmental, economic, and particularly sociopolitical impacts of the extractive industries have received limited attention from scholarly circles. Against this backdrop, River-sand Mining: An Ethnography of Resource Conflict in China is a much-needed study on the sociopolitical impacts of mineral extraction in contem...