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.
Abstract
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.
- Subjects
- 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
- culture
- Han Chinese
- Region
- Asia
- Sub Region
- East Asia
- Document Type
- Book
- Evaluation
- Creator Type
- Ethnologist
- Document Rating
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- 5: Excellent Primary Data
- Analyst
- Ian Skoggard; 2021
- Field Date
- 1989-1999
- Coverage Date
- 1850-1999
- Coverage Place
- Lu Village, Lufeng County, Yunnan Province, People's Republic of China;
- Notes
- Laurel Bossen
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 367-379) and index
- LCCN
- 2001044378
- LCSH
- 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