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China´s Longest Campaign: Birth Planning in the People´s Republic, 1949–2005
Tyrene White
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Description for China´s Longest Campaign: Birth Planning in the People´s Republic, 1949–2005
Paperback. Num Pages: 320 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 1FPC; 3JJPL; HBJF; HBLW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 448.
In the late 1970s, just as China was embarking on a sweeping program of post-Mao reforms, it also launched a one-child campaign. This campaign, which cut against the grain of rural reforms and childbearing preferences, was the culmination of a decade-long effort to subject reproduction to state planning. Tyrene White here analyzes this great social engineering experiment, drawing on more than twenty years of research, including fieldwork and interviews with a wide range of family-planning officials and rural cadres.White explores the origins of China's "birth-planning" approach to population control, the implementation of the campaign in rural China, strategies of resistance ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
320
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801475399
SKU
V9780801475399
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About Tyrene White
Tyrene White is Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science at Swarthmore College.
Reviews for China´s Longest Campaign: Birth Planning in the People´s Republic, 1949–2005
"Tyrene White knows as much about the one-child policy in China as anyone around. The narrative of China's Longest Campaign is presented in rich yet always pleasurably readable detail, and the research on which it is based is solid and comprehensive. White's analysis is cast, cleverly, in terms of a compelling set of puzzles: why would, and how could, the ... Read more