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? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and written sources, this book describes farming households' strategic solutions to this predicament.
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? Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and written sources, this book describes farming households' strategic solutions to this predicament.
Lena Kaufmann is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of History and an associate lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies, both at the University of Zurich. Trained as an anthropologist and sinologist, she spent nearly four years in China, researching migration in the city and countryside.
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Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Arguments and aims of the book Agriculture and migration From 'migrant worlds' to 'community of practice' worlds Knowledge repertoire and agency Accessing the rural-urban community of practice Structure of the book References 1. HOW THE PREDICAMENT AROSE Modern agriculture in Anren County De-collectivization and marketization Abolition of the collective welfare system The new urban economy and increased migration References 2. RICE KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS IN TRANSITION Transformation of agricultural knowledge transmission Transformation of the repertoire of knowledge Agricultural deskilling and extended knowledge repertoires References 3. REFERENCE MODELS FOR TRANSMITTING KNOWLEDGE Transmitting farming knowledge through proverbs Educating the masses Textualizing vernacular knowledge Negotiating knowledge and farmer-state relationships References 4. TECHNOLOGICAL CHOICE IN THE WAKE OF MIGRATION Tilling with power ploughs and oxen Harvesting with sickles and combine harvesters Choosing harvesting technologies Technological choice from a repertoire perspective References 5. LAND-USE STRATEGIES Sustaining intensive rice farming De-intensifying rice farming More than linear more than technical References CONCLUSION: A SKILL PERSPECTIVE ON MIGRATION Agency beyond resistance Decision making beyond economic reasoning Technology beyond linear progress Migration beyond dichotomies References Appendix I. Glossary II. Solar terms III. Song of the 24 Solar Terms IV. Examples of proverbs and encoded knowledge References Index.
Acknowledgements INTRODUCTION Arguments and aims of the book Agriculture and migration From 'migrant worlds' to 'community of practice' worlds Knowledge repertoire and agency Accessing the rural-urban community of practice Structure of the book References 1. HOW THE PREDICAMENT AROSE Modern agriculture in Anren County De-collectivization and marketization Abolition of the collective welfare system The new urban economy and increased migration References 2. RICE KNOWLEDGE SYSTEMS IN TRANSITION Transformation of agricultural knowledge transmission Transformation of the repertoire of knowledge Agricultural deskilling and extended knowledge repertoires References 3. REFERENCE MODELS FOR TRANSMITTING KNOWLEDGE Transmitting farming knowledge through proverbs Educating the masses Textualizing vernacular knowledge Negotiating knowledge and farmer-state relationships References 4. TECHNOLOGICAL CHOICE IN THE WAKE OF MIGRATION Tilling with power ploughs and oxen Harvesting with sickles and combine harvesters Choosing harvesting technologies Technological choice from a repertoire perspective References 5. LAND-USE STRATEGIES Sustaining intensive rice farming De-intensifying rice farming More than linear more than technical References CONCLUSION: A SKILL PERSPECTIVE ON MIGRATION Agency beyond resistance Decision making beyond economic reasoning Technology beyond linear progress Migration beyond dichotomies References Appendix I. Glossary II. Solar terms III. Song of the 24 Solar Terms IV. Examples of proverbs and encoded knowledge References Index.
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