Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
By: Xiaowei Wang
4.03
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice "A brilliant and empathetic guide to the far corner…
Want to Read $ 9.99"In Xi Jinping's China, it's uncomfortable for two strangers to go too deep into the subject of politics. There are no clear cut consequences for discussing politics. After all, this is preceisely how the system of censorship works, with a shadowy unease that looms over public conversations. Censorship is not made explicit, you just censor yourself. No one knows the consequences of critique, but no one wants to find out."-Xiaowei Wang, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
"In Xi Jinping's China, it's uncomfortable for two strangers to go too deep into the subject of politics. There are no clear cut consequences for discussing politics. After all, this is preceisely how the system of censorship works, with a shadowy unease that looms over public conversations. Censorship is not made explicit, you just censor yourself. No one knows the consequences of critique, but no one wants to find out."-Xiaowei Wang, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
"In Xi Jinping's China, it's uncomfortable for two strangers to go too deep into the subject of politics. There are no clear cut consequences for discussing politics. After all, this is preceisely how the system of censorship works, with a shadowy unease that looms over public conversations. Censorship is not made explicit, you just censor yourself. No one knows the consequences of critique, but no one wants to find out."-Xiaowei Wang, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
"Rural culture is marked by a different sense of time, a different cosmology. At the core of rural culture, he says, is a belief that the universe is already perfect as it is, and that our duty as humans is to maintain that harmony. This was a sentiment I heard often from farmers as I traveled throughout the countryside . One farmer told me that the future is a created concept, and that in the fields, in the long dark of winters, there is no future, because every day depends on tending to the present moment. An act of care. In contrast, urban culture is centered on the belief that the universe must be constantly corrected on its course, and that life is defined by the pleasure of overcoming future challenges."-Xiaowei Wang, Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside
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