The Barefoot Doctors of Rural China

Diane Li a graduate student in communication at the University of Stanford was permitted for five weeks to visit the Peoples Republic of China with her husband a professor of Chinese law at Stanford and a team of medical experts Together they investigated and documented the training and work of Chinas peasant paramedicals the barefoot doctors One of the first films about China made by an American of Chinese descent Lis documentary provides a rare glimpse of village life in the PRC at a time when Cold War tensions were easing between the United States and China