Prof. Shelly Chan Talked about Chinese Women Stayed Behind in the Age of Emigration

Prof. Shelly Chan is associate professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She gave a talk at Boston College entittled "The Women Who Stayed Behind" on Feburary 12th, discussing  how the Chinese Communist state in the 1950s sought to reform marriage in rural south China, after a century of mass emigration had thoroughly transformed the lives of women who stayed behind.