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- Historicises the Chinese agricultural system within land reform movements, rural reform movements, and ecological consciousness in China
- Uses interdisciplinary techniques to add context and depth to an understanding of the new Chinese consumer
- Provides an account of how contemporary Chinese politicians resolve social tensions within a hybrid economy
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Class Relations and Exemplarity
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Exemplary Agriculture in the Countryside and the City
Reviews
“This is a timely and brilliant ethnography for the studies of foodways, and the case in Shanghai sheds light on the emergence of independent organic farming worldwide and in relation to food movements in many Asian societies in particular. (Sidney C. H. Cheung, Professor, Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
“In this groundbreaking study of China's emerging organic movement, Cody paints vivid portraits of Shanghai's new organic farmers and their multi-facetted relationships to customers, volunteers, intellectual activists, rural and urban society, and the party-state. It is an exemplary ethnography of contemporary China and an important contribution to the Anthropology of Food and Food Studies.” (Jakob Klein, Chair of the SOAS Food Studies Centre and co-editor of The Handbook of Food and Anthropology, London)
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Book Title: Exemplary Agriculture
Book Subtitle: Independent Organic Farming in Contemporary China
Authors: Sacha Cody
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3795-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Singapore
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3794-9Published: 06 March 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3795-6Published: 25 February 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXI, 260
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Anthropology, Agricultural Economics, Asian Politics