China's agriculture and rural society have undergone rapid changes in recent years. This book provides a 'bottom-up view' of China's agriculture, showing how the many millions of Chinese peasants make a living. "This book's most distinguishing feature lies in pounding home the opposition between an agroindustrial Western paradigm and a peasant-centered Chinese paradigm ... there is a need for accounts of promising agrarian lifeways that are critical and self-reflexive but forcefully open up avenues of action, a need this book helps to address." - John Aloysius Zinda, Cornell University, USA, in Journal of Peasant Studies (2017)