She recently published an impressive book, “Resigned activism: Living with pollution in rural China” based on comparative field work in villages and towns in three provinces: Hunan, Yunnan and Guandong. Studies range for damage to health from heavy metals by local mining and industrial firms to e-waste recycling. She asks the question, when and how do villagers and activists complain, and still more relevantly, why do they so often put up with pollution and do not complain publicly and instead “adapt” individually? How does the system achieve a “normalization of pollution”?