region in China, this book is a key read for academics and a broader public willing to get a clearer view of one of the …

poverty. In Small Works, John A. Donaldson draws on his extensive fieldwork in two Chinese provinces-Yunnan and Guizhou …-that are exceptions to the purported relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction. In Yunnan, an outward … ideas encapsulated in the "scientific development view" of China's current president Hu Jintao. After all, Hu, when Guizhou …