The World of Chinese

BLOCKCHAIN CHICKEN FARM: AND OTHER STORIES OF TECH IN CHINA’S COUNTRYSID­E

- – TINA XU (徐盈盈)

From chickens with Fitbit-like health monitoring devices, to pesticide-spraying drones, Xiaowei Wang explores communitie­s and industries in rural China that are adopting high technology with enthusiasm and at startling scale. A former Silicon Valley software engineer with academic training in geography, Wang has written a book that portrays high capitalism in seemingly farflung corners with humorous vignettes of human actors behind global supply chains, interwoven with dense meditation­s on culture, policy, and technology.

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