A cruel old saying deemed a married-out daughter as worthless as “thrown-away water”. Today, the collective financial losses suffered by China’s married-out women are growing
That harsh tradition has caused individual tales of heartache for centuries. To cite a cruel old saying, a married-out daughter was deemed as worthless as “thrown-away water”. But today, the collective financial losses suffered by China’s married-out women are growing. More rural land is rented out to agricultural companies or other businesses. Other land attracts compensation payments when local officials build on it.
Impressed, Chaguan headed to Fujian to meet some of them. He found a plaintiff surnamed Su—naturally—in her cement-walled, tile-floored village home. Mrs Su’sremains in Lüchuwu, where she was born and raised. She returned home after the birth of her youngest child, having spent some years in a coastal province running a small shop. Her young children study in a nearby school. Until her father’s death this year, both her parents lived in the village.
Mrs Su is surely correct. A neighbour, asked about the recent lawsuits, snaps that she lost out on land revenues from her own home village after she married a man from Lüchuwu. That being so, she does not see why any other married-out woman should fare better. Over tiny cups of tea in his office, the village party secretary, Su Qiang, describes long months of negotiations between women plaintiffs and village section chiefs, haggling over possible cash settlements.
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