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  • HYGIENE, SOCIALITY, AND CULTURE IN CONTEMPORARY RURAL CHINA
    LILI LAI
    This book presents a new perspective on attempts by the contemporary Chinese government to transform the diverse conditions found in countless rural villages into what the state's social welfare program deems 'socialist new villages'. Lili Lai argues that an ethnographic focus on the specifics of village life can help destabilize China's persistent rural-urban divide and help c...

    $1,240.00

  • GATHERING MEDICINES
    JUDITH FARQUHAR / LILI LAI
    In the early 2000s, the central government of China encouraged all of the nation’s registered minorities to “salvage, sort, synthesize, and elevate” folk medical knowledges in an effort to create local health care systems comparable to the nationally supported institutions of traditional Chinese medicine. Gathering Medicines bears witness to this remarkable moment of knowledge ...

    $663.99