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 People’s 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 China’s peasant paramedicals, the ‘barefoot doctors’. One of the first films about China made by an American of Chinese descent, Li’s 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. Watch The Barefoot Doctors of Rural China in HD free online now on SFlix with multiple servers and instant playback. Enjoy high-quality streaming of The Barefoot Doctors of Rural China and share your thoughts in the comments below!