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Chinese Farm Chronicles

Vivianne Z W (薇薇)

Field notes from a changing rural China

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Let me read this out to you! Above is an audio-narration by me, with original jingles by Jaren Yeung.


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/ explanation for this… not-so-brief hiatus.

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Field notes in transit

In April this year, I spent three weeks based in Qitian, a region in rural Sichuan, documenting the work, lives and memories of elderly smallholder farmers in a local cooperative called Qitian (旗田). Two months later I travelled to the US to...

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Hearing noise in rural Hainan

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Good eggs, bad eggs

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Looking upon the hog tower

This is an edited and extended version of a piece originally written for and posted on my Instagram page @chinesefarmchronicles on 22 September 2024, based on my notes from an industrial pig farm in southwest China. I lived on the farm for...

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    swedish-born chinese writer, photographer & ethnographer sharing field notes from rural china. currently at the university of oxford. @chinesefarmchronicles on instagram for more regular updates!

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