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Eating Spring Rice is the first major ethnographic study of HIV/AIDS in China. Drawing on more than a decade of ethnographic research (1995-2005), primarily in Yunnan Province, Sandra Teresa Hyde chronicles the rise of the HIV epidemic from the years prior to the Chinese government's acknowledgement of this public health crisis to post-reform thinking about infectious-disease management. Hyde combines innovative public health research with in-depth ethnography on the ways minorities and sex workers were marked as the principle carriers of HIV, often despite evidence to the contrary.Hyde approaches HIV/AIDS as a study of the conceptualization and the circulation of a disease across boundaries that requires different kinds of anthropological thinking and methods. She focuses on "everyday AIDS practices" to examine the links between the material and the discursive representations of HIV/AIDS. This book illustrates how representatives of the Chinese government singled out a former kingdom of Thailand, Sipsongpanna, and its indigenous ethnic group, the Tai-Lüe, as carriers of HIV due to a history of prejudice and stigma, and to the geography of the borderlands. Hyde poses questions about the cultural politics of epidemics, state-society relations, Han and non-Han ethnic dynamics, and the rise of an AIDS public health bureaucracy in the post-reform era.

AIDS (Disease) --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Government policy --- Social aspects --- 20th century. --- aids epidemic. --- anthropologists. --- chinese culture. --- chinese government. --- chinese society. --- cultural anthropology. --- cultural politics. --- ethnic discrimination. --- ethnic dynamics. --- ethnographers. --- ethnographic study. --- han. --- history of prejudice. --- hiv aids. --- infectious diseases. --- minority experience. --- post reform era. --- public health crisis. --- public health policies. --- sex workers. --- social historians. --- social stigmas. --- southwest china. --- thailand. --- yunnan province.

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Rich countries' agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round will be determined. Subject to widespread criticism, they nonetheless appear to be almost immune to serious reform, and one of their most common defenses is that they protect poor farmers. The authors' findings reject this claim. The analysis uses detailed data on farm incomes to show that major commodity programs are highly regressive in the United States, and that the only serious losses under trade reform are among large, wealthy farmers in a few heavily protected subsectors. In contrast, analysis using household data from 15 developing countries indicates that reforming rich countries' agricultural trade policies would lift large numbers of developing country farm households out of poverty. In the majority of cases these gains are not outweighed by the poverty-increasing effects of higher food prices among other households. Agricultural reforms that appear feasible, even under an ambitious Doha Round, achieve only a fraction of the benefits for developing countries that full liberalization promises, but protect U.S. large farms from most of the rigors of adjustment. Finally, the analysis indicates that maximal trade-led poverty reductions occur when developing countries participate more fully in agricultural trade liberalization.

Agricultural Liberalization --- Agricultural Products --- Agricultural Support --- Debt Markets --- Distributional Effects --- Economic Policies --- Economic Theory and Research --- Emerging Markets --- Farm Households --- Farm Income --- Farm Incomes --- Farm Sector --- Finance and Financial Sector Development --- Financial Literacy --- Food Prices --- Free Trade --- Health, Nutrition and Population --- Household Survey --- Income --- International Economics & Trade --- Macroeconomics and Economic Growth --- Political Economy --- Poor --- Poor Countries --- Poor Farmers --- Population Policies --- Post-Reform --- Poverty --- Poverty Reduction --- Private Sector Development --- Pro-Poor Growth --- Rural --- Rural Development --- Rural Poverty Reduction --- Rural Sectors