Judd reviews WOMEN IN THE NEW TAIWAN: Gender Roles and Gender Consciousness in a Changing Society edited by Catherine Farris, Anru Lee, and Murray Rubinstein.
'Cadres And Kin: Making a Socialist Village in West China, 1921-1991' by Gregory A. Ruf and 'Village Inc.: Chinese Rural Society in the 1990s' edited by Flemming Christiansen and Zhang Junzuo are reviewed.
Decollectivization and the division of land have raised questions about whether a landed basis might reappear for a contemporary reformulation of patriliny in the Chinese countryside. This article addresses these questions by examining the processes through which formerly collective land has been divided and partially brought together again in informal, nameless co-operative groupings with an apparent patrilineal tinge.
According to the author, decollectivization and the division of land have raised questions about whether a landed basis might reappear for a contemporary reformulation of patriliny in the Chinese countryside. She addresses these questions by examining the processes through which formerly collective land has been divided and partially brought together again in informal, nameless co-operative groupings with an apparent patrilineal tinge in the village Huali in north-western Shandong province. (DÜI-Sen)
The paper explores conceptions of gender and agency expressed by rural Chinese women during fieldwork in three Shandong villages in 1986 and 1987-88. It situates these conceptions in the context of differing patterns of division of labour and separation of activity in the three villages studied. The villages - one still collective, one decollectivized and developing rural industry, and one concentrating on household-based commodity production - are compared in terms of the opportunities and constraints each context offers for women. (DÜI-Sen)