"It is very common that women have no rights in the villages. You're not supposed to speak out because it's against filial piety and tradition. That's the way it's been since the Qing dynasty."
--Cheng Lai-sheung, a resident of Ma tin, New Territories, Hong Kong, on the lingering vestiges of Qing dynasty rule in the New Territories. It was only last year that women were granted inheritance rights in the New Territories of Hong Kong.
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