Utopia in Practice

This book is a collection of texts on one of China’s boldest social experiments in recent years: the Bishan Project, a rural reconstruction and practical utopian commune project in a small village Bishan, Anhui Province, China. This project ran for 6 years (2011- 2016) and caused a national debate in China, when it was invited to be exhibited and presented abroad.
The writings describe and criticize the social problems caused by China’s over-loading urbanization process and starts a contemporary agrarianism and agritopianism discourse to resist the modernism and developmentalism doctrine which dominated China for more than a century, answering a global desire for the theory and action of the alternative social solution for today’s environmental and political crises.