Abstract:

This documentary trilogy includes includes Small Happiness: Women of a Chinese Village; All Under Heaven: Life in a Chinese Village; and To Taste a Hundred Herbs: Gods, Ancestors and Medicine in a Chinese Village. In Small Happiness, women of Low Bow village talk candidly about marriage, birth control, work and daily life. All Under Heaven is a penetrating account of change and continuity in a north Chinese village. To Taste a Hundred Herbs is a portrait of a traditional Chinese doctor whose Catholic faith shapes his values and gives him a special role in his community. || "An empathetic introduction to a handful of people who live in a complexly textured world of large power constellations, intimate social relations and deep moral dilemmas." --The Journal of Asian Studies || "ONE VILLAGE IN CHINA allows real people to speak directly to us. Their simple words do more to illuminate our similarities and differences than any recap of research ever could." --USA Today