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 is particularly challenging for rice
farmers, because paddy fields have to be cultivated continuously to
retain their soil quality and value. Drawing on ethnographic
fieldwork and written sources, Rural-Urban Migration and
Agro-Technological Change in Post-Reform China describes farming
households' strategic solutions to this predicament. It shows how,
in light of rural-urban migration and agro-technological change,
they manage to sustain both migration and farming. It innovatively
conceives rural households as part of a larger farming community of
practice that spans both staying and migrating household members
and their material world. Focusing on one exemplary resource -
paddy fields - it argues that socio-technical resources are key
factors in understanding migration flows and migrant-home
relations. Overall, this book provides rare insights into the rural
side of migration and farmers' knowledge and agency.
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