Open AccessTraining Farmers or Educating Citizens?
Author(s) -
Stig Thøgersen
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the copenhagen journal of asian studies/the copenhagen journal of asian studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.312
H-Index - 13
eISSN - 2246-2163
pISSN - 1395-4199
DOI - 10.22439/cjas.v39i2.6368
Subject(s) - bureaucracy , china , training (meteorology) , vignette , agriculture , economic growth , political science , rural area , sociology , public administration , geography , politics , economics , psychology , law , social psychology , archaeology , meteorology
Jørgen Delman’s Ph.D. thesis “Agricultural Extension in Renshou County, China” (1991) was the result of his return to academia in the late 1980s after he worked for three years at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN in China. It is a detailed study of the complex rural bureaucracy promoting agricultural innovation and change and reflects a deep understanding of how things worked on the ground in those relatively early years of market-oriented rural reforms. It also contributes to a larger story of how ‘modern’ knowledge over the last century has been transmitted and negotiated between China’s urban centers and its countless rural communities. This vignette offers some thoughts on this larger topic.