From pork farmers using AI to produce the perfect pig, to disruptive luxury counterfeits and the political intersections of e-commerce villages, rural China has not only adapted to rapid globalization but has actually innovated the technology we all use today. In this talk, based on their book Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China's Countryside, Wang discusses the rural-urban connections of tech in the Chinese countryside, and how red state America and rural China are more connected than we think.