Full Citation: Li, Y. and Yin-Sheng, X., “Married Women’s Rights to Land in China’s Traditional Farming Areas,” 15(49) JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY CHINA 621 (2006). – This paper focuses on women’s land rights in their maiden village in traditional farming areas, and shows, based on an analysis of a case study combined with a questionnaire survey, that married women’s land rights tend to be retained in their parent’s village with the implementation of new policy and land contract laws, but that they have almost no rights in their maiden families after marriage, due to the influence of traditional marriage notions and customs. [Threats to Women’s Land Tenure Security and Effectiveness of Interventions – Annotated Bibliography]