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''Journey To The Forbidden China'' is a book by Steven W. Mosher, cultural anthropologist and sinologist. The book covers his anthropological work in the countryside of South China. ==Synopsis== Mosher travels throughout Southern China from Canton and visits several provinces to witness first hand the stark, desolate countryside isolated from the rest of the world. The countryside of Guangxi province is visited by Mosher and his guide first, where he documents the experiences of an ethnic minority, the Chuang in their mostly autonomous region. The author continues to write of his experiences traveling down a "Class Four Highway" (a dirt road) to Kweichow province. Kweichow province is a mountainous region with a sparse population grubbing out an existence in the barren land using new world crops of maize and sweet potatoes. The province was only settled in the 16th century after the introduction of said new world crops, crops that are hardy enough to survive the soil and the short growing season. Mosher finds evidence of malnutrition and recurring bouts of famine in the province remain common. What is striking about the rural Chinese life is that the people in such villages lack access to schooling, healthcare, radio or television, and even are untouched by basic amenities such as fertilizer, electricity, running water, or modern agricultural tools. The villagers are unresponsive to the Chinese Communist Revolution as well as its rhetoric of a revolution fought ''for'' and ''by'' the peasants. The only contact with the government in Peking is through the party cadres and the CPC's version of the KGB, the Chinese Communist Party's secret police. Mosher's travels are halted by an encounter with the Chinese Ministry of Public Security, who detain him on the basis that he never received permission from Canton Municipal Public Security to operate a motor vehicle and travel to and through Chungking, Chengtu, Nanking, Soochow, and Peking in addition to Kweichow province. The Canton Municipal Public Security office had in fact issued Mosher a permit to travel by motor vehicle through the aforementioned provinces and back to Canton. Mosher successfully was able to visit and take notes on the people of Guangdong, Guangxi, and Kweichou before being apprehended by the Ministry of Public Security. The Public Security cadres question Mosher and inform him that Kweichou province is off limits and that foreigners are restricted from traveling in the province due to the presence of military bases. The author believes that it is because Kweichou is the poorest province in all of China, and the totalitarian government did not want a cultural anthropologist reporting on the abject poverty of the province and the failures of the Chinese Communist Party in addition to the reporting Mosher did on the forced abortions and sterilizations of Chinese peasant women who went over the government mandated limit of 1 to 2 children. Mosher is told to write a 'confession' of his misdeeds but he throws the Public Security cadres off his trail by writing a defense in the English language rather than Chinese, despite easily being able to write in Chinese characters. Mosher is then put on a train back to Canton where he edits his notes and reflects on the state of the rural Chinese people and the associated effects of the Communist Party on their lives. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Journey To The Forbidden China」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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