Ivan Franceschini
@ivanfranceschini.bsky.social
Founder and chief editor of the Made in China Journal, The People's Map of Global China, and Global China Pulse. Researching ethnic Chinese transnational crime, especially in the online scam industry.
Political science
58%
Sociology
19%
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Agricultural Drones: Material Afterlives of Mao’s Green Revolution | Made in China Journal
The four propellers begin to spin. A gust of wind presses down the surrounding rice plants as a pulsing rotor-whir fills the air. The drone, carrying its battery and a tank of pesticides, lifts off an...
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In this essay, @lenakaufmann.bsky.social argues that China's farming drones aren't a clean break from the past. The Mao-era Green Revolution is still there in the reservoirs, fields, seeds, and chemicals these machines fly over, with the old political projects shaping new tech.