Experiencing development on China’s frontier: the Nuosu’s bridewealth by Zuoshi, A

“…<p>The thesis investigates the “problematic” inflation in bridewealth among the Nuosu people in contemporary Liangshan, Southwest China, to elucidate how ethnic minorities engaged with various state-steered development projects. …”

Prioritising conservation areas in Southeast Asia: highlighting zoological biodiversity hotspots and assessing spatiotemporal patterns of the felids guild by Chiaverini, L

“…In the continental extents of Southeast Asia, the most biodiverse areas occurred in the mountainous region of Southwest China and in the Thai-Malay Peninsula, both characterised by an extent ranging between 250 and 300 km2, providing a more precise distribution of the terrestrial vertebrate biodiversity within the original biodiversity hotspots that, otherwise, have a total extent of almost 3,500,000 km2 in the mainland. …”