| Description |
1 online resource (264 p.) |
| Series |
Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China Ser |
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Cambridge Studies in the History of the People's Republic of China Ser
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- Introduction -- Moving Beyond the One Child Policy -- Birth Control and Medical Modernity -- Going to the Source(s) -- Birth Control Case Studies: Shanghai, Tianjin, and Luoyang -- Chapter Outline -- 1 Building a Fitter Nation: Eugenics, Birth Control, and Abortion in Public Discourse, 1911-1949 -- Translating Modernity: Eugenics and Birth Control -- Infanticide, Abandonment, and Abortion in Public Discourse |
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Chastity, Birth Control, and the Ideal Woman -- Conclusion -- 2 Birth Control in Practice: Emmenagogues, Contraceptives, and Abortions, 1911-1949 -- Abortion or Menstrual Regulation? -- The Trouble with Rubbers -- Abortion in the Records -- Birth Control and Abortion: Theory versus Practice -- Conclusion -- 3 Reaping the Fruits of Women's Labor: Birth Control in the Early PRC, 1949-1958 -- ''More Sons, More Happiness'' -- Did Sex Education Exist in 1950s China? -- Class, Location, and Birth Control -- Infidelity, Birth Control, and Abortion -- Conclusion |
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4 ''Birth Planning Has Many Benefits'': Weaving Family Planning into the Fabric of Everyday Life, 1959-1965 -- Birth Planning as Art and Entertainment -- One Step Forward, Two Steps Back -- When Using Contraception, One Must Adhere to a Reliable Method -- Old Wine in a New Bottle (xinping jiujiu) -- Conclusion -- 5 Controlling Sex and Reproduction across the Urban-Rural Divide, 1966-1979 -- Cultures of Sex and Birth Control -- Sex and Birth Control in Practice -- Out-of-Wedlock Sex and Abortion in the Eyes of the Law -- The Rise of the Barefoot Doctors and the Evolving Role of the State |
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Conclusion -- 6 The Rise and Demise of the One Child Policy, 1979-2015 -- The Partial Transition from Reactive to Proactive Population Control -- IUDs -- ''The Pill'' -- Sterilization -- Abortions and Abortifacients -- Compliance, Collusion, and Resistance -- Making Better Babies: Eugenics in Post-Mao China -- The Challenge of Sex Education -- Conclusion -- Epilogue: Birth Control and Abortion in the Longue Durée, 1911-2021 -- Sexuality and the Law -- Fertility Culture -- Gender -- Medicine -- Appendix: Interviews -- Glossary -- References -- Libraries and Archives -- Theses and Dissertations |
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Primary and Secondary Sources -- Index |
| Summary |
China's One Child Policy is often remembered as one of the most ambitious social engineering projects to date. Drawing on a rich combination of archival research and oral history, Sarah Mellors Rodriguez investigates grassroots experiences of fertility policies and politics in modern China from the early twentieth century to the present |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781009027335 |
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1009027336 |
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