Explores the change most of rural China is undergoing via the story of a privately held rice company that has built new roads, introduced organic farming, and c

During the past quarter century Jonathan Unger has interviewed farmers and rural officials from various parts of China in order to track the extraordinary chang

Explores the economic, social and financial changes that have transformed China's rural governance over the past twenty years.

Winner of the Lionel Gelber Prize National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist An Economist Best Book of the Year | A Financial Times Book of the Year | A Wall S

How do rural Chinese households deal with the conflicting pressures of migrating into cities to work as well as staying at home to preserve their fields? This i