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Record Nr.

UNINA9910463352403321

Autore

Scharping Thomas

Titolo

Birth control in China, 1949-2000 : population policy and demographic development / / Thomas Scharping

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-136-82368-9

1-315-02777-1

1-136-82361-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (425 p.)

Collana

Chinese worlds

Disciplina

262.9/6/0951

Soggetti

Birth control - China

Birth control - Government policy - China

Birth control - Economic aspects - China

Electronic books.

China Population policy

China Population

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Supersedes and substantially enlarges a German work, Geburtenplanung in China (1995), edited by Thomas Scharping and Robert Heuser, and includes revisions of the author's part of the earlier work.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [372]-395) and index.

Nota di contenuto

pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. Policy formulation -- pt. III. Bureaucratic implementation -- pt. IV. Popular response -- pt. V. Demographic results -- pt. VI. Conclusions and future perspectives.

Sommario/riassunto

This comprehensive volume analyses Chinese birth policies and population developments from the founding of the People's Republic to the 2000 census. The main emphasis is on China's 'Hardship Number One Under Heaven': the highly controversial one-child campaign, and the violent clash between family strategies and government policies it entails.<BR><EM>Birth Control in China 1949-2000</EM> documents an agonizing search for a way out of predicament and a protracted inner Party struggle, a massive effort for social engineering and grinding problems of implementation. It reveals how birth control i