China''s Longest Campaign: Birth Planning in the People''s Republic, 1949–2005
ISBN: 9781501726583
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Cornell University Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Birth control -- Government policy -- China -- History -- 20th century; China -- Population policy -- History -- 20th century;

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...


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

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