Governing China's Population: From Leninist to Neoliberal Biopolitics

by Susan Greenhalgh, Edwin A. Winckler, Edwin A Winckler

Book Overview

China's giant project in social engineering has drawn worldwide attention, both because of its coercive enforcement of strict birth limits, and because of the striking changes that have occurred in China's population: one of the fastest fertility declines in modern history and a gender gap among infants that is the highest in the world. These changes have contributed to an imminent crisis of social security for a rapidly aging population, provoking...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804748802
• ISBN13: 9780804748803
• Release Date: September 2005
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 412 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 8.8"