*Result*: A mother's misery and cultural change in a Kam community, 1950 – 1990: Author's postscript in the forthcoming book: Life in a Kam Village in Southwest China, 1930 – 1949.

*The main substance of this paper is the postscript of a book currently awaiting publication ‘Life in a Kam Village in Southwest China, 1930 – 1949’. The book was written by a Kam professor and then translated into English. In this paper, the translator first introduces the forthcoming book and presents some Chinese historical background to contextualize the story of the postscript. In his postscript, the author briefly describes the culture of the village where he was born and lived for 20 years, before leaving in 1950. The author's father died in 1944, but his mother lived for more than 20 years after Liberation in 1949. By reference to his four return visits between 1964 and 1990 and in particular to his mother's post-Liberation experiences, the author outlines how the inter-personal and material culture of his home village changed irrevocably during the second half of the twentieth century. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]*