Mobilizing Vernacular Obstetric Science: The Production of Childbirth and Midwifery Knowledge in Rural Socialist China, 1940s–1970s
Modern China: An International Journal of History and Social Science
Published online on May 18, 2026
Abstract
Modern China, Ahead of Print.
This article introduces the concept of “vernacular obstetric science” to explain how the Chinese Communist Party organized obstetric knowledge for rural use from the wartime base areas of the 1940s to the barefoot doctor program of the early 1970s. ...
This article introduces the concept of “vernacular obstetric science” to explain how the Chinese Communist Party organized obstetric knowledge for rural use from the wartime base areas of the 1940s to the barefoot doctor program of the early 1970s. ...