China's Longest Campaign: Birth Planning in the People's Republic, 1949–2005

Tyrene White

Published by Cornell University Press 2009

China's Longest Campaign

Birth Planning in the People's Republic, 1949–2005

Tyrene White

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501726583

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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...

Author / Editor information

Tyrene White is Associate Professor and Chair of Political Science at Swarthmore College.

Reviews

Martin K. Whyte, Harvard University:

Tyrene White's careful reading of documentary evidence from the 1950s leads to a nuanced and interesting picture of internal debates within the Chinese leadership and among intellectuals about birth-control issues in a period prior to mandatory family planning. When discussing changes in mandatory family planning in the 1980s, White is able to rely on local evidence she collected, particularly in rural Hubei, on changes in the implementation of the policies she describes.

Marc Blecher, Oberlin College:

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 state undertake so unpopular a policy at a time of considerable political uncertainty, flux, and retrenchment? She offers an important, insightful correction to some of our best grassroots-centered theories of resistance and political change.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
List of Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
1. The Collectivization of Childbearing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. Jihua Shengyu: The Origins of Birth Planning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
3. Planning Population Growth: The Political Economy of State Intervention Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	42
4. The Architecture of Mobilization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	71
5. Two Kinds of Production: Rural Reform and the One-Child Campaign Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
6. The Politics of Mass Sterilization Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	134
7. Strategies of Resistance Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	170
8. Campaign Revivalism and Its Limits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	208
9. Against the Grain: The Chinese Experience with Birth Planning Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	244
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	267
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 320
Illustrations
- Other: 10 tables
Keywords: Asian Studies; History

eBook

Published: September 5, 2018
ISBN: 9781501726583