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Critically examining China’s Targeted Poverty Alleviation campaign, this book challenges the dominant narrative of a complete victory over poverty. Drawing on extensive fieldwork across multiple provinces, it examines how the Chinese state conceptualises and acts upon poverty as a technical, depoliticised issue, often through disruptive interventions such as mass resettlement.
Drawing attention to the uncertain and enduring consequences of campaign-style governance, the book provides fresh insights into Chinese politics, development and political geography. It offers a different way of thinking about poor people and poor places in China, essential for researchers focused on poverty management and state power.
“Seeing poverty as a multi-faceted process of problematisation, Sarah Rogers' book provides a genuinely captivating account of how poverty knowledge is produced and enacted in governance practices in contemporary China, feeding into new modalities of state power but eliding alternatives openings of rural futures amidst China’s rural-urban transition.” Junxi Qian, Hong Kong University
Introduction: A Decisive and Complete Victory
1. Techniques of Poverty
2. Knowing Poverty
3. Acting on Poverty
4. Re-Politicising Poverty
5. After Poverty
Conclusion