"An East gate book."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-289) and index

Theoretical framework: familism, women's liberation, and autonomy -- Baixiao village: past and present -- Finding a partner, love, and marriage -- Marriage, familism, and autonomy -- The story of uncle Qiu: the dictates of the parents, the words of the matchmaker -- The story of Zhichao: the transition from tradition to modernity -- The story of Qiming: a marriage in the 1990s -- Tradition, women, and the interpretation of the self -- A review of the research into women in Chinese villages -- Wang Guizhen: growing up under the reform and opening-up policy -- "A female's need for fulfillment" in the eyes of traditional women -- Sex and sex trade under the reform and opening-up policy -- Familial culture, gender relationship, and sexual indulgence -- Sex, sex trade, and extra-marital relationship in the eyes of men -- Wealth, materialism, and the feminine viewpoint -- The paradox of the development in Baixiao village -- Reflections on methodology -- Revisit: Baixiao village at the turn of the century -- Baixiao village at the beginning of the twenty-first century -- Rural political reform: Baixiao village committee election. 650 _0 ˜a Women in rural development œz China