Utopia in Practice

CONTENTS

 

 

Prologue

 

Night Play

 

Introduction

 

Utopia in Practice

 

Rural Youth

 

My Self-Urbanised Story

Nostalgia Survey

Letter to My Mother

 

Huizhou Fieldwork

 

From Nonplaces to Places

Revisiting Bishan

 

Blueprint

 

Anarchist and Ruralism

The Possibility of Rural Revival

The Agrarian Home and It's Reconstruction

 

Bishan Harvestival

 

Go Bush!

 

Reality and History

 

Beijing's Climate Politics

What Wukan Means

The Cultivators: Rural Reconstructionists in China

 

Yixian International Festival

 

The Urban-Rural Interactions

Field of Hope

 

Deep Plowing

 

Heart-following Houses

The Benevolent Mind

The Documentation of Local Life

 

Controversy and Introspection

 

Symbolic Boundary, Distinction and Othering

The Organic Intellectuals

Informal Life Politics

Cultural Production and Placemaking

 

School of Tillers

 

Beat the Land

Timekeepers

Memoir in Southern Anhui

 

New Commons

 

The Crisis and Experiment of the Commons

The "Commons" of Common Spaces

 

Agriculture, Craftsmanship and Education

 

The Food Politics

Renaissance of Craftsmanship?

Children's Sense of Reality

 

City and Countryside

 

After City "Failed"

Countryside as Countryside

 

The Utopian Dream

 

Autonomy: Utopia or Realpolitik

You're Too Shy to Talk about Utopia

The Discourse of Utopia in the Post-Mao Era

 

Postscript

 

Aftershock

 

Epilogue

 

Large Rat

 

Appendix

 

The Chronology of Bishan Project