The Agrarian Mind - Journal #128 June 2022 - e-flux
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Ou Ning shows how millennia-long agrarian philosophies could have eased Shanghai's food shortage crisis today.
Twenty-five million people recently went hungry in China’s most economically developed city. No one could have imagined this happening in Shanghai, where per capita disposable income is the highest in the entire country. The reason wasn’t insufficient food supply, but the city’s lockdown, which started on March 28. More than preventing the spread of Omicron, China’s zero-Covid strategy has been all about political display. Nongovernment elements in society are suppressed, while only the omnipresent government is allowed to act. Initially, residents confined to their homes scrambled to order…
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