The end of alternatives? Capitalist transformation, rural activism and the politics of possibility in ChinaFootnote^†

† Day and Schneider’s collaborative research, Feeding China: The Project on China’s Food Histories, Geographies, and Ecologies, is outlined at https://feedingchina.wordpress.com/.

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