Book
Chinese women and rural development: sixty years of change in Lu Village, Yunnan
Rowman and Littlefield Publishers • Lanham, Md. • Published In 2002 • Pages:
By: Bossen, Laurel.
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
This is a follow up study, fifty years later, of Chinese anthropologist, Fei Xiaotong's (1938) famous study of a Yunnan village, "Earthbound China." The current author, Bossen, focuses on gender relations, which was largely ignored by Fei. The author devotes chapters to the topics of foot binding, uxorilocal marriage, witches, poverty, and female cadres. An interesting argument is made linking the demise of foot binding to the rise of industrial textile production and fall of household production. Foot binding had kept women in the home and at the loom.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Historical and archival research
- Life history materials
- Composition of population
- Cordage
- Woven and other interworked fabrics
- Body alterations
- Real property
- Division of labor by gender
- Gender status
- Mode of marriage
- Residence
- Household
- Poverty
- Shamans and psychotherapists
- cultureCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Han Chinese
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- Asia
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- East Asia
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- 1989-1999
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 1850-1999
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- Lu Village, Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China;
- NotesAdditional notes
- Laurel Bossen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-379) and index
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 2001044378
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Women in rural development--China--Lucun (Yunnan Sheng)
- Women--China--Lucun (Yunnan Sheng)--Social conditions
- Sex role--China--Lucun (Yunnan Sheng)
- Footbinding--China--Lucun (Yunnan Sheng)
- Lucun (Yunnan Sheng, China)--Social conditions