Village Of "greenhouse" :

Based on insights gained from seminal studies in development anthropology and the prior work on contemporary rural China’s transformations, this thesis examines the role of greenhouse farming in facilitating the industrialization of vegetable production as well as its social and cultural impacts on local life in Shouguang, Shangdong Province, China. As an ethnographic case study for rethinking rural China’s development model, this study seeks to integrate both bottom-up and top-down perspectives from with which to explore further significance of adaptive wisdom which demonstrated its operational worth in routine practices and analyze the unintended consequences brought about by unprecedented economic change. Subject to the structured forces represented by the state, techno-industry, agribusiness and marketplace, ordinary farmers became increasingly marginalized players in greenhouse vegetable gardening and passive recipients of a one-dimensional model of rural development. On the other hand, large-scale vegetable farming has resulted in disruptive changes of intra-village economic life, local ecology and interpersonal relationships. This study contributes to an existing body of knowledge in the anthropological study of sustainable development and the social and human costs of "progress."...