Hello, I'm Alice Su, The Economist's senior China correspondent,
and I'm here with my co-host, David Rennie, our Beijing bureau chief.
This is the second episode in a two-part look
at how Chinese women are demanding more rights at a time when the state is emphasizing traditional gender roles.
This week, we're going to the countryside,
where women who marry outside their villages are losing their rights to land that legally belongs to them.
I've been in Fujian, meeting rural women fighting back,
and finding out whether or not they'll get their land rights back.
We're asking, why are patriarchal values trumping the law in China's countryside?
This is Drum Tower from The Economist.
Hello, Alice.
Hi, David. How's it going?
Well, it turns out that we have a lot of engineers among our listeners
and engineers have strong views about political journalists borrowing a piece of engineering jargon.
To be precise, kludge, to describe a mass of overlapping policies.
Oh, kludge, that mystery term that you used on our episode about China's agricultural policy.
We got a lot of feedback on that.
And you know, some people even told us that it's not pronounced kludge, it's pronounced kluge.
Well, there I can't help you, but what I can tell you is that one of our listeners, Gordon,
so he listens while his children run about a playground in Bloemfontein.