'With vivid everyday details as much as theoretical probing, this splendid ethnographic tale is beautifully written through honest and intimate personal reflections. The larger question in the background is infinitely interesting: Does the 'last peasantry', still loosely organized in collective communities in China, have a future in modernity?' Lin Chun, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Politics, LSE 'A thought-provoking and moving workshaped, perhaps, by Linda Qian's own homesickness as a Chinese-Canadian ethnographerHomesick Nation reveals how homesickness in China is both a structure of feeling and a tool of governance: mobilized by the state, yet felt, negotiated, and resisted by thinking, doing, and feeling rural actors.' Ling Tang, Lecturer in Cultural Studies, University of Melbourne
