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Category Archives: Zhejiang Province
“Seeking Truth From Fact” Part III: Gaoping’s E-commerce Shop
I felt conflicted about how to write this post. My previous two posts on Gaoping’s peasant tourism association and organic food cooperative were easy, feel-good, ‘hooray-for-rural-alternativist-values’ stories of grassroots cooperative institutions that integrate the needs and interests of the local … Continue reading
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Tagged e-commerce, local government, rural China, social enterprise, Zhejiang
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“Seeking Truth From Fact” Part II: Gaoping’s Organic Farm Cooperative
In my last post I described the recent evolution of Gaoping’s peasant-tourism cooperative association. Mainly, how the villagers scaled up from scattered, individual households opening their homes to tourists, to sharing resources and combining services to form the ‘Four Unifications’ … Continue reading
“Seeking Truth From Fact”: The Relevant Role of Experimental Models in China’s Rural Development
I returned to Suichang last week as an assistant to a professor I met at a conference last summer who hired me as a mentor for a group of US undergrad students she lead on a month-long trip across China. … Continue reading
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Tagged cooperatives, local government, rural China, rural land-use, Suichang, Zhejiang
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Suichang Part II: Chinese New Year 2014
As I am sure you can imagine, I was ecstatic to get back in touch with the family from Suichang that I stayed with in 2010 (see previous post), and jumped at the opportunity when they invited me to spend ten … Continue reading
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Tagged rural China, Suichang, tea farming, wwoof china, Zhejiang
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China's Rural Land-Use: Notes from the Field 