From Forest Farm to Sawmill - 9780295752662

From Forest Farm to SawmillStories of Labor, Gender, and the Chinese State\nAuthor(s): Shuxuan Zhou\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Washington Press, United States\nImprint: University of Washington Press\nISBN-13: 9780295752662, 978-0295752662\nSynopsis\nA worker-centered, woman-centered history of China's economic transformationSocialist Chinas state forestry and timber industries employed men as state workers and women as family dependents and collective workers who, beginning in the 1950s, turned rural land into urban-industrial space. These features make forestry a unique case with which to investigate how state policies constructed and reinforced intertwined and co-constitutive dualisms between humanity and nature, urban and rural places, production and reproduction, and male and female labor. Centering on oral histories in Fujian, Shuxuan Zhou situates firsthand accounts of labor and resistance in forestry and wood processing within the larger context of postrevolu.