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Name of creator(s) : Lucien and Jane Hanks

Scope and content : Article by George Orick, published in the Ford Foundation Report, vol.23 no.4, 1992. Anwang located in China’s Yunnan Province, where 94% of the area is mountainous, Anwang is a remote rural region. The government has reached out to encourage far-reaching changes in the area’s traditional subsistence farming methods, describing these changes as “poverty alleviation”. Anwang was established by minority people driven to marginal land by the expanding Han majority. Some villagers have begun to think of marketing tiny food surpluses outside the village. However, Anwang’s people are uneducated and remain geographically isolated. Although the village now has a road, there is as yet no electricity. The main impetus for change in recent times was the abolition in 1982 of communes and their replacement by township governments charged with establishing a “responsibility system” of land tenure.

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