Hung, Po-Yi. 2015. Tea production, land use politics and ethnic minorities struggling over dilemmas in China's southwest frontier. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Reviewed by Kathryn Gomersall

Kathryn Gomersall

doi:10.2458/v22i1.21122

Abstract

Hung, Po-Yi. 2015. Tea production, land use politics and ethnic minorities struggling over dilemmas in China's southwest frontier. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. Reviewed by Kathryn Gomersall

Highlights

Po-Yi Hung's book is based on his dissertation research in Yunnan Province, China
Historical examination of land reforms reveal the incompatible desires of the Chinese state to maintain control over the frontier border regions that are populated by the ethnic minorities that have historically resisted Han domination, while simultaneously expanding a privatised tea industry in Mangjing
The book shows the incompatible desires of tea entrepreneurs and Bulang villagers that emerge to construct meanings of tea production, engendered by the global tea market that fuels contestations of land and property rights in the tea fields of Mangjing

Summary

Introduction

Po-Yi Hung's book is based on his dissertation research in Yunnan Province, China. The book is an interesting examination of the dilemmas that China's ethnic minorities face in adjusting to the global market economy; in this case the international tea trade. Historical examination of land reforms reveal the incompatible desires of the Chinese state to maintain control over the frontier border regions that are populated by the ethnic minorities that have historically resisted Han domination, while simultaneously expanding a privatised tea industry in Mangjing. The book shows the incompatible desires of tea entrepreneurs and Bulang villagers that emerge to construct meanings of tea production, engendered by the global tea market that fuels contestations of land and property rights in the tea fields of Mangjing.

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