What happens when a tea-growing village meets contemporary art? In 2021, the Artfield China project arrived in Hanxi village, Jiangxi Province, drawing both attention and visitors.
But behind the buzz were bigger questions: How could the surge in tourist traffic benefit locals in the long term? How did the community feel about the art? And after the project ended, how would they keep tourism going? Tune in to this episode of Decoding Rural China’s Governance to find out.