Jacka, Tamara2015-12-080306-6150http://hdl.handle.net/1885/30620During the 1980s and 1990s, peasants, especially peasant women, were mostly ignored in elite Chinese discourse on development, or portrayed as a 'backward', 'low quality' group, who put a drag on modernization. But since then, a number of elite discourses201310.1080/03066150.2013.8557232015-12-08