CONTENTS Prologue Night Play Introduction Utopia in Practice Rural Youth My Self-Urbanised Story Nostalgia Survey Letter to My Mother Huizhou Fieldwork From Nonplaces to Places Revisiting Bishan Blueprint Anarchist and Ruralism The Possibility of Rural Revival The Agrarian Home and It's Reconstruction Bishan Harvestival Go Bush! Reality and History Beijing's Climate Politics What Wukan Means The Cultivators: Rural Reconstructionists in China Yixian International Festival The Urban-Rural Interactions Field of Hope Deep Plowing Heart-following Houses The Benevolent Mind The Documentation of Local Life Controversy and Introspection Symbolic Boundary, Distinction and Othering The Organic Intellectuals Informal Life Politics Cultural Production and Placemaking School of Tillers Beat the Land Timekeepers Memoir in Southern Anhui New Commons The Crisis and Experiment of the Commons The "Commons" of Common Spaces Agriculture, Craftsmanship and Education The Food Politics Renaissance of Craftsmanship? Children's Sense of Reality City and Countryside After City "Failed" Countryside as Countryside The Utopian Dream Autonomy: Utopia or Realpolitik You're Too Shy to Talk about Utopia The Discourse of Utopia in the Post-Mao Era Postscript Aftershock Epilogue Large Rat Appendix The Chronology of Bishan Project