{"id":8614,"date":"2006-08-01T17:45:35","date_gmt":"2006-08-02T00:45:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/08\/01\/two-chinese-villages-two-views-of-rural-poverty-maureen-fan\/"},"modified":"2006-08-01T17:45:35","modified_gmt":"2006-08-02T00:45:35","slug":"two-chinese-villages-two-views-of-rural-poverty-maureen-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/2006\/08\/two-chinese-villages-two-views-of-rural-poverty-maureen-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Chinese Villages, Two Views of Rural Poverty &#8211; Maureen Fan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\nFrom the Washington Post:\n<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n<a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/PH2006073101026.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/chinadigitaltimes.net\/PH2006073101026.jpg','popup','width=228,height=151,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/mt-old\/PH2006073101026-tm.jpg\" height=\"100\" width=\"150\" border=\"1\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Ph2006073101026\" \/><\/a>Nestled mid-slope in the foothills of China&#8217;s second-poorest province, Dacitan is a village run almost entirely by women, mothers who work the potato and wheat fields while their husbands are away.<\/p>\n<p>Seventy miles to the east, perched on a remote mountain ridge above a collapsing dirt road, Sale is thick with men who sit idle, hoping for opportunity that never arrives and women who rarely do.<\/p>\n<p>Both are Muslim villages populated by members of the ethnic <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hui_people\" target=\"_blank\">Hui minority<\/a>, and both are stark examples of the cost of China&#8217;s blistering economic growth. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/07\/31\/AR2006073101399.html\" target=\"_blank\">[Full text]<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\nSee also the Washington Post photo essay &#8220;<a href=\"javascript:void(window.open('http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/gallery\/2006\/07\/31\/GA2006073101022_metaRefresher.htm?startat=1','cwgallery_win','toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,copyhistory=no,width=730,height=670,left=0,top=0,screenX=0,screenY=0'))\" target=\"_blank\">China&#8217;s Great Divider of the Sexes.<\/a>&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post: Nestled mid-slope in the foothills of China&#8217;s second-poorest province, Dacitan is a village run almost entirely by women, mothers who work the potato and wheat fields while their husbands are away. 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