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<p><b>A <i>New York Times Book Review</i> Editors' Choice</b><br><b><br>"</b><b>A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corners of global capitalism." --Jenny Odell, author of <i>How to Do Nothing</i></b><br><b><br>From FSGO x <i>Logic</i>: stories about rural China, food, and tech that reveal new truths about the globalized world<br><br></b>In <i>Blockchain Chicken Farm</i>, the 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. <br><br>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. Accompanied by humorous “Sinofuturist” recipes that frame meals as they transform under new technology, <i>Blockchain Chicken Farm</i> is an original and probing

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Author

Xiaowei Wang

Publisher

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374721251

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Social Science, Social_sciences

Rating

4.5 / 5 (212 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14