Gender, land and local heterogeneity

Journal of Contemporary China

Volumn 15, Issue 49, 2006, Pages 637-650

  Lin, Zhibin ^a   Lixin, Zhang ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN RIGHTS; LAND RIGHTS; LAND TENURE; LANDOWNERSHIP; WOMENS STATUS;

ASIA; CHINA; EURASIA; FAR EAST;

EID: 33750372647     PISSN: 10670564     EISSN: 14699400     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10670560600836689     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Li Cangping, Wo xiang renmin jiang shihua [Telling the Truth to my People ] (Beijing: Yuan Fang Press, 2004), p. 3.
2. The broader debate is reviewed in Sally Sargeson, 'Full circle? Rural land reforms in globalising China', Critical Asian Studies 36(4), (2004).
3. Wen Tiejun, 'Shangge shiji xiabanye de Zhongguo nongcun tizhi' ['China's rural institutions in the last half century'], Zhanlue yu Guanli [Strategy and Management ] 6, (1999), pp. 1-7.
4. Norman Long, 'From paradigm lost to paradigm regained? - The case for an actor-oriented sociology of development', in N. Long and A. Long, eds, Battlefields of Knowledge (London: Routledge, 1992), p. 20.
5. See Lin Zhibin, 'Chongguo tudi zhidu zhong de xingbie wenti' ['Gender equality in China's land tenure system'], Nongcun guancha [Journal of Agricultural Observation ], (October 2001).
6. To protect the privacy of informants, we use fictitious names for the places visited and the people interviewed.
7. Land reallocation means that the entire landholdings of a given sub-village will be pooled together and reallocated equally to each member of the sub-village. Land adjustment means that those households that have experienced a decrease in family members return land shares held by the former members of the household, while households that have increased in number are eligible to receive extra shares of land, depending on the overall availability of land within the sub-village.
8. Norman Long, Development Sociology - Actor Perspectives (London: Routledge, 2001), p. 49.
9. Reserve land is collective land under direct management of the sub-village. The functions of reserve land as explained by some village leaders interviewed are: Generating sub-village collective income and disposal in land adjustment. Normally, reserve land is leased out to farmers for income generation. In Wang Village, villagers pay about 300 yuan per mu per year for leasing the reserve land. Each sub-village has about ten mu of reserve land.
10. Jim Yardley, 'Army of migrant workers reshapes China', International Herald Tribune, (13 September 2004).
11. Lin Zhibin, 'Capacity or opportunity: Women's role in decision-making in the household and community - case study in China', presented at Expert Consultation Meeting on Situation of Rural Women in the Context of Globalization, organised by the Division for the Advancement of Women in collaboration with UNIFEM, Ulaanbaator, 4-8 June 2001.
12. Both male and migrant workers are exploited by their employers, in particular, and the economic system in general. And it is near to impossible for rural migrant workers to get permanent residency in urban areas due to China's household registration system that discriminates against the rural population. However, there is a small portion of male and female migrant workers that have made a breakthrough and created a good life on the margins of urban societies.