Nutritional Well-Being of Preschool Children in a North China Village

China's and openness has reached the midpoint of its second decade. And yet, for Westem sinologists, who now have increased opportunity to conduct ethnographic fieldwork in rural China, it seems that access has raised more questions than it has answered. These questions include the following: To what extent has the current reform really benefited the rural populace? Have their living conditions improved with increased disposable incomes and consumer goods? Or, because the current economic development has been concentrated in the coastal cities, has the rural sector been stagnant, especially since the mid-1980s (Watson, 1992; White, 1991)? Furthermore, with the retrenchment of party-state controls over rural social life, how have the peasants responded to this new environment? Has the dismantling of the collective communal organizations weakened public welfare programs such as poverty assistance and health care, thus threatening the security and well-being of the

Agriculture · China · Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Food security · Geography · Political science · Poverty · Retrenchment · Rural area · Social security · Socioeconomics · Sociology · State (computer science · Welfare · Child Nutrition and Water Access · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Public Administration

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