Introduction : Olympic time and dilemmas of development in China's Tibet
The dangers of the gift master
The mountain deity and the state : voice, deity mediumship and land expropriation in Jima village
Othering spaces, cementing treasure : concrete, money, and the politics of value in Kharnak village school
The melodious sound of the right-turning conch : historiography and Buddhist counter-development in Langmo village
Spectacular compassion : "natural" disasters, national mourning, and the unquiet dead
Epilogue : the kindly solemn face of the female Buddha.