Tea Production, Land Use Politics, and Ethnic Minorities

Po-Yi Hung is Assistant Professor of Geography at National Taiwan University. His research focuses on nature-society relations, food, and agriculture in China, Taiwan, East Asia, and Southeast Asia.

"Hung is to be applauded for including 25 photos in the book ... . the insights about the villagers' adoption of discourses of suzhi, their sense of a contradiction between modernity and science, and their relationships with the merchants from outside make this an interesting and valuable book. Beyond the small audience of scholars who work on Yunnan, it will be significant to those who study the interaction between global commodity markets and rural communities in developing countries." (Joseph Lawson, Mountain Research and Development, Vol. 37 (1), February, 2017)

• Introduction1. Tea Production and Dilemmas on China ' 's Southwest FrontierPART I: HARVESTING2. PropertyPART II: PROCESSING3. Quality4. HierarchyPART III: SELLING5. Landscape6. RitualConclusion7. Production of Tea, Reproduction of Dilemma, and Remaking of Place