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Autore |
Greenhalgh Susan |
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Just one child : science and policy in Deng's China / / Susan Greenhalgh |
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Berkeley, Calif. ; ; London, : University of California Press, c2008 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xxii, 403 p., [6] p. of plates ) : ill. ; |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Birth control - China - History - 20th century |
Women - Social conditions - 20th century |
Family Planning Policy - history |
Birth Rate |
Family Planning Services - history |
History, 20th Century |
Population Control - history |
Population Growth |
Public Policy |
China Population policy |
China |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 371-394) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction : an anthropology of science making and policymaking -- History : the "ideology" before the "science" -- A Chinese Marxian statistics of population -- A sinified cybernetics of population -- A Chinese Marxian humanism of population -- The scientific revolution in Chengdu -- Ally recruitment in Beijing -- Scientific policymaking in Zhongnanhai -- Conclusion : why an epistemic approach matters. |
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"China's one-child rule is unassailably one of the most controversial social policies of all time. In the first book of its kind, Susan Greenhalgh draws on twenty years of research into China's population politics to explain how the leaders of a nation of one billion decided to limit all couples to one child. Focusing on the historic period 1978-80, when China was reentering the global capitalist system after decades of self-imposed isolation, Greenhalgh documents the extraordinary |
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