Homesick Nation: A Conversation with Linda Qian

Linda Qian’s Homesick Nation: Development, Migration and Yearning in Rural China (Cambridge University Press, 2026) examines rural development in contemporary China through the lens of 乡愁 xiangchou, a concept connoting homesickness and rural nostalgia. Centred on Heyang, a heritage village in Zhejiang, the book employs hometown ethnography to trace the complex return flows of people, […] The post Homesick Nation: A Conversation with Linda Qian appeared first on Made in China Journal.

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