Record Country: China

Full Citation: Liaw, R. H., “Women’s Land Rights in Rural China: Transforming Existing Laws into a Source of Property Rights,” 17(1) PACIFIC RIM LAW & POLICY JOURNAL 237 (2008). – In the aftermath of legal reforms designed to secure land tenure for farmers, women in rural China lost rights to land at marriage, divorce, and widowhood. Despite a central legal framework that facially protects women’s property interests, ambiguity in the property and marriage laws have allowed village leaders to reassert traditional social norms and deny constitutional equal rights guarantees for women. Recent attempts to ameliorate landlessness for women, specifically in […]