Chinese Women and Rural Development: Sixty Years of Change in Luchun, Yunnan

Author: (Canada) Baosen
Translator: Hu Yukun
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Publish Date: 2005-01-01
Features: Renowned anthropologist Fei Xiaotong conducted pioneering research on the agricultural land system in Luchun, Yunnan, in the 1930s. More than half a century later, Canadian scholar Baosen revisited the region and carried out a decade-long field study. Against the backdrop of the profound political, economic, and historical changes in China over the past 60 years, the author explores and organizes gender issues in various fields such as foot-binding and textile production, agricultural land system, agricultural and non-agricultural employment, poverty and wealth, marriage and family, population changes, and political culture, centered around the theme of "Chinese Women and Rural Development." Through a unique perspective and methodology, the author recreates the microdynamic evolution of the gender system in the rural Chinese Han society.