Why are women being denied legal land rights?

Our weekly podcast on China. This week, we ask why patriarchal values are trumping the law in China’s countryside

courses through rural China. If a woman marries a man from outside her village, she becomes a, or “married-out daughter”.

Tradition deems married-out women can be stripped of their rights to land that legally belongs to them.s Beijing bureau chief, David Rennie, and senior China correspondent, Alice Su, meet the married-out women in rural Fujian fighting to get their land back. Runtime: 33 min

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