Abstract
After termination of the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution had been proclaimed in 1978, many a thing representative of this turbulent political era of the PR China was changed, reduced, or abolished. The system of the people’s commune, being the most radical version of collective economy in the young PR China, which had been introduced ten years prior to the Cultural Revolution, became the most outstanding victim of the reform. With respect to health care, the West considered barefoot doctors as a synonym of the Cultural Revolution. This paper will point to the longer established history of barefoot doctors, demonstrating that they did not suffer extinction in the course of post-revolutionary retribution. Instead, they were converted into a modern system – the village doctors’ system. The article benefits from the author’s 35-years acquaintance with a former barefoot doctor who nowadays serves as a village doctor in the province of Anhui.
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