Horticulture Boom in a Hot Valley: Gendered Labor and Migration in China’s Southwest Frontier:Dr. QI
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The Hong Kong Anthropological Society in association with
The Hong Kong Museum of History* Presents
Horticulture Boom in a Hot Valley: Gendered
Labor and Migration in China’s Southwest
Frontier: An anthropological lecture by Miaomiao QI
Friday, 28 August at 7:00 p.m.
Hong Kong Museum of History
Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 100 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui
All are welcome! Space, however, is limited to 139 seats.
The lecture is conducted in English.
In recent years, thousands of migrants from inland and coastal provinces have moved to rural Yunnan, a province in China’s southwest frontier, to lease land and grow high value horticulture crops. Facilitated by the state’s financial and institutional support for an agenda of agriculture modernization, their arrival has triggered a widespread land rush that is reshaping local agrarian livelihoods and landscapes. In this talk, I will examine how this internal land rush is transforming smallholder open-air horticulture into highly specialized and concentrated greenhouse production. As the industry expands, the remaining local smallholders, who are mostly middle-aged and elderly women, are increasingly drawn into seasonal agriculture labor. By tracing the flows of rural capital and labor, I highlight a profound reconfiguration of agriculture, rural livelihood, and everyday life-making.
Miaomiao (Mira) Qi is a recent Ph.D. graduate in the department of Global Development at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the process of agrarian transformation in China, specifically on the issues of rural labor and gender justice. She previously completed a master’s degree in community development at
the University of California, Davis.
For more information, please contact [email protected], www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/hkas,
www.facebook.com/hkanthro,@HKASTalks
The Hong Kong Museum of History* Presents
Horticulture Boom in a Hot Valley: Gendered
Labor and Migration in China’s Southwest
Frontier: An anthropological lecture by Miaomiao QI
Friday, 28 August at 7:00 p.m.
Hong Kong Museum of History
Lecture Hall, Ground Floor, 100 Chatham Road South, Tsim Sha Tsui
All are welcome! Space, however, is limited to 139 seats.
The lecture is conducted in English.
In recent years, thousands of migrants from inland and coastal provinces have moved to rural Yunnan, a province in China’s southwest frontier, to lease land and grow high value horticulture crops. Facilitated by the state’s financial and institutional support for an agenda of agriculture modernization, their arrival has triggered a widespread land rush that is reshaping local agrarian livelihoods and landscapes. In this talk, I will examine how this internal land rush is transforming smallholder open-air horticulture into highly specialized and concentrated greenhouse production. As the industry expands, the remaining local smallholders, who are mostly middle-aged and elderly women, are increasingly drawn into seasonal agriculture labor. By tracing the flows of rural capital and labor, I highlight a profound reconfiguration of agriculture, rural livelihood, and everyday life-making.
Miaomiao (Mira) Qi is a recent Ph.D. graduate in the department of Global Development at Cornell University. Her research focuses on the process of agrarian transformation in China, specifically on the issues of rural labor and gender justice. She previously completed a master’s degree in community development at
the University of California, Davis.
For more information, please contact [email protected], www.cuhk.edu.hk/ant/hkas,
www.facebook.com/hkanthro,@HKASTalks
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