reality. The land reform, which was intended to create a more balanced

economic force in marriage, was the beginning of governmental efforts to

pacify women, with no real social effect. Communist China needed to address the "woman question". Since women wanted more equality, and equality is doled out from the hands of those in power,capitalism was examined. The economic issues of repressed Chinese women

were focused on the Land Act and the Marriage Act of 1950. The Land reform

succeeded in eliminating the extended family's material basis and hence,

its potential for posing as a political threat to the regime. Small-plots

were redistributed to each family member regardless of age or sex; and land

reform provisions stipulated that property would be equally divided in the

case of divorce. Nonetheless, their husbands effectively controlled land

allotted to women. Patriarchal familial relationships in the Confucian

The Marriage Law of 1950 legalized marriage, denounced patriarchal

Andors, Phyllis. The Unfinished Liberation of Chinese Women. Bloomington:

In contrast, one-child families are entitled to many privileges including

pursue more important forms of production. Women were recruited for

Communist China's intentions were to provide women with economic

the barbaric practice of foot binding, which rendered a woman powerless to

reaches fourteen years of age; and additional private plots from the

Zhongguo Funu (Women of China) wrote the following in response to the

for advanced industrial development. The One-Family, One-Child campaigns

especially in the rural areas. Women were looked to for the solution to

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