Mapping Shangrila: Contested Landscapes in the Sino-Tibetan BorderlandsIn 2001 the Chinese government announced that the precise location of Shangrila a place that previously had existed only in fiction had been identified in Zhongdian County, Yunnan. Since then, Sino Tibetan borderlands in Yunnan, Sichuan, Gansu, Qinghai, and the Tibet Autonomous Region have been the sites of numerous state projects of tourism development and nature conservation, which have in turn attracted throngs of backpackers, environmentalists,