BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:The Moynihan Institute’s\, East Asia Program presents a book ta lk with Brendan A. Galipeau from Binghamton University - SUNY.This talk di scusses how wine has transformed Tibetan land and lives. Set in the Sino-T ibetan border region renamed “Shangri-La” by the Chinese government for to urism promotion\, Crafting a Tibetan Terroir considers how the deployment of the French notion of terroir works to create new forms of ethno-regiona l identities and village landscapes through the production of Tibetan wine as a commodity. \;In Shangri-La\, a rapidly developing international ethno-travel destination\, European histories and global capitalism are be ing reestablished and reformulated through viticulture\, which has altered landscapes and livelihoods. From the introduction of vineyards by ninetee nth-century French and Swiss Catholic missionaries to make sacramental win e\, to twenty-first century commercialization\, this ethnography documents the ways Tibetans are indigenizing modernity in the context of economic d evelopment on their own terms.This book provides timely insight into China ’s rapid entry into the global wine market\, highlighting the localized im pacts of this emergent industry\, which include transformation from subsis tence agriculture to monocropping and intensified agrochemical use. It als o addresses larger issues of international trade\, suggesting that certain commodities—stimulants and intoxicants in particular—have long connected Europe and the Asia Pacific region\, and that these connections are now be ing reconceived in fashioning new industries and identities.Brendan A. Gal ipeau is a lecturer in environmental studies at Binghamton University. He previously served as assistant professor of anthropology at National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan from 2019 to 2024 and as a postdoctoral fellow i n transnational Asian studies at Rice University from 2017 to 2019. Galipe au has lived in and has been conducting research in Tibetan Southwest Chin a since 2007. His research and publications broadly focus on environmental change and human relations with nature in Southwest China and Taiwan\, wi th a particular focus on agrarian change\, hydropower resettlement and rel igious ecologies. \; DTEND:20260910T180000Z DTSTAMP:20260915T153847Z DTSTART:20260910T163000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Book Talk |Brendan A. Galipeau | ‘Crafting a Tibetan Terroir: Winem aking in Shangri-La’ UID:RFCALITEM639250691272384052 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

The Moynihan Institute’s\, East Asia Progra m presents a book talk with Brendan A. Galipeau from Binghamton University - SUNY.

This talk discusses how wine has transformed Tibetan l and and lives. Set in the Sino-Tibetan border region renamed “Shangri-La” by the Chinese government for tourism promotion\, Crafting a Tibetan Terro ir considers how the deployment of the French notion of terroir works to c reate new forms of ethno-regional identities and village landscapes throug h the production of Tibetan wine as a commodity. \;

In Sh angri-La\, a rapidly developing international ethno-travel destination\, E uropean histories and global capitalism are being reestablished and reform ulated through viticulture\, which has altered landscapes and livelihoods. From the introduction of vineyards by nineteenth-century French and Swiss Catholic missionaries to make sacramental wine\, to twenty-first century commercialization\, this ethnography documents the ways Tibetans are indig enizing modernity in the context of economic development on their own term s.

This book provides timely insight into China’s rapid entry into t he global wine market\, highlighting the localized impacts of this emergen t industry\, which include transformation from subsistence agriculture to monocropping and intensified agrochemical use. It also addresses larger is sues of international trade\, suggesting that certain commodities—stimulan ts and intoxicants in particular—have long connected Europe and the Asia P acific region\, and that these connections are now being reconceived in fa shioning new industries and identities.

Brendan A. Gali peau is a lecturer in environmental studies at Binghamton Univers ity. He previously served as assistant professor of anthropology at Nation al Tsing Hua University in Taiwan from 2019 to 2024 and as a postdoctoral fellow in transnational Asian studies at Rice University from 2017 to 2019 . Galipeau has lived in and has been conducting research in Tibetan Southw est China since 2007. His research and publications broadly focus on envir onmental change and human relations with nature in Southwest China and Tai wan\, with a particular focus on agrarian change\, hydropower resettlement and religious ecologies. \;

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