TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wang,Xiaowei
TI  - Blockchain chicken farm: and other stories of tech in China's countryside 
SN  - 0374538662 (pbk.)
AV  - T55.77 .C6 W26 2020
U1  - 609.51/091734 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New York
PB  - Farrar, Straus and Giroux
KW  - Wang, Xiaowei,
KW  - Technology and state
KW  - China
KW  - Technology
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Rural conditions
KW  - United States
KW  - Commerce
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (page 241-246); Ghosts in the machine -- On a blockchain chicken farm in the middle of nowhere -- When AI farms pigs -- Buffet life -- Made in China -- "No one can predict the future" -- Gone shopping in the mountain stronghold -- Welcome to my pearl party
N2  - "Technologist and writer Xiaowei Wang explores the political and social entanglements of technology in rural China. Their discoveries force them to challenge the standard idea that rural culture and people are backward, conservative, and intolerant. Instead, they find that rural China has not only adapted to rapid globalization but has actually innovated the technology we all use today.  From pork farmers using AI to produce the perfect pig, to disruptive luxury counterfeits and the political intersections of e-commerce villages, Wang unravels the ties between globalization, technology, agriculture, and commerce in unprecedented fashion." --publisher's website
ER  -