The Cultural Politics of Ethnic Identity in Xishuangbanna, China: Tea and Rubber as “Cash Crops” and “Commodities”
In 2003, the poverty alleviation bureau in Xishuangbanna, China, introduced tea and rubber as cash crops to raise the incomes of ethnic-minority farmers who were thought to be backward and unfamiliar with markets. Using Marx’s commodity fetish and Polly Hill’s critique of “cash crops”, this paper an...
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| Language: | English |
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SAGE Publishing
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Journal of Current Chinese Affairs |
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| Online Access: | http://hup.sub.uni-hamburg.de/giga/jcca/article/view/576 |