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

by Tyrene White

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801444055
• ISBN13: 9780801444050
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.7" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher