The birth of Baokuan: Human-machine “gambling games” between villages and algorithms
Published online on November 12, 2025
Abstract
Ethnography, Ahead of Print.
Since 2009, rural China has gradually developed a new livelihood model in which families produce goods in small home-based workshops and sell them via online stores on e-commerce platforms. This article explores how rural e-commerce merchants in Daiji ...
Since 2009, rural China has gradually developed a new livelihood model in which families produce goods in small home-based workshops and sell them via online stores on e-commerce platforms. This article explores how rural e-commerce merchants in Daiji ...