Historical Interpretations China Sac

Peasant Revenge (Fenby)

"gotten their revenge"

Discontent In Life (Dikotter)

"China was a country seething with discontent"

Three Bad Years (Fairbank)

"Man-made famine"

Purpose of Fanshen (Cairns)

"Empower the peasantry and encourage revolutionary thinking"

Exploitation of Peasants (Ryan)

they were a class who were "impoverished and exploited"

Changes to Everyday Life (Hsu)

"27 year rule brought little improvement into people's living standards""

Gender Categories (Liu)

"This strategy reinforces the division on labour that reproduces gender categories"

Discrimination of Women (Ryan)

"Faced discrimination and mistreatment"

Women in the Workplace (Liu)

Women were paid less on the assumption they "put less forward"

Women and Classes (Dietrich)

"Women had risen to second class citizens"

Footbinding (Ko)

"All that was wrong with traditional China: oppression of women"

Women's Independence from Men (Hsu)

It was believed: "Women's participation in wage labour would undermine their independence on men"

Women and Double Standards (Liu)

"Women were held to a double standard"

Urban vs Country Workers (Liu)

"Urban workers were paid better than other workers across the country"

Rural and Urban Divide (Liu)

"China inherited a stark rural/urban divide"

Peasants After (Zhang)

Peasants were "Still the most illiterate, most powerless, and poorest social class"