Ellen Judd

[Photo：courtesy of Ellen Judd]

Professor Ellen Judd is a woman who has borne witness to the rapid changes that have occurred in China. As one of the earliest foreign students in a Chinese university, she first arrived in the country toward the end of the Cultural Revolution, studying in Beijing and Shanghai on a Canada-China Exchange Scholarship. 

Today she is a Professor and Head of Anthropology at the University of Manitoba. She is also the author of Gender and Power in Rural North China a book she wrote after many years of her ethnographic research in rural China. She recently was in Beijing and Nillah Nyakoa caught up with her. In this episode she shares her memories of living in the Middle kingdom 4 decades ago and how things have changed over time.