The Lost Generation: “Barefoot Doctors” in Post-Reform China
Memo #309 By Jiong Tu – jt457 [at] cam.ac.uk China’s barefoot doctor system is known for having provided inexpensive and accessible medical care to its large rural population in the 1970s. But the system became bankrupt with the advent of market reforms in the 1980s and many barefoot doctors either became private doctors or gave […]