Retrotopia | Sixth Tone
Shi Yangkun––Sixth Tone
China has spent the last four decades liberalizing its economy. But in the country’s remaining collectivized villages, nostalgia for yesteryear is strong. Sixth Tone multimedia journalist Shi Yangkun spent several months, beginning in March 2018, traveling to several of these villages where the local government owns and operates a corporation that the residents work for, and the profits from the corporation are directed back into the village. An accompanying piece by Sixth Tone explores the way these villages mix capitalism and active government redistribution.
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China has spent the last four decades liberalizing its economy. But in the country’s remaining collectivized villages, nostalgia for yesteryear is strong. Sixth Tone multimedia journalist Shi Yangkun spent several months, beginning in March 2018, traveling to several of these villages where the local government owns and operates a corporation that the residents work for, and the profits from the corporation are directed back into the village. An accompanying piece by Sixth Tone explores the way these villages mix capitalism and active government redistribution.